2 Samuel 8:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 11:23-25 : 23 And God sent another trouble-maker, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had gone in flight from his lord, Hadadezer, king of Zobah: 24 He got some men together and made himself captain of a band of outlaws; and went to Damascus and became king there. 25 He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.
  • 1 Chr 18:5-6 : 5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand Aramaeans. 6 Then David put armed forces in Damascus, and the Aramaeans became his servants and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
  • Job 9:13 : 13 God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.
  • Ps 83:4-8 : 4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory. 5 For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you: 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre; 8 Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)
  • Isa 7:8 : 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be broken, and will no longer be a people):
  • Isa 8:9-9 : 9 Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth: 10 Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.
  • Isa 31:3 : 3 For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.
  • 2 Sam 8:3 : 3 And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Chr 18:2-7
    6 verses
    97%

    2And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.

    3Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.

    4And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

    5And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand Aramaeans.

    6Then David put armed forces in Damascus, and the Aramaeans became his servants and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

    7And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer, David took to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 10:15-19
    5 verses
    83%

    15And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome them, they got themselves together.

    16And Hadadezer sent for the Aramaeans who were on the other side of the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach, the captain of Hadadezer's army, at their head.

    17And word of this was given to David: and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam. And the Aramaeans put their forces in position against David, and made an attack on him.

    18And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven hundred Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and Shobach, the captain of the army, was wounded, and came to his death there.

    19And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became their servants. So the Aramaeans, in fear, gave no more help to the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Chr 19:16-19
    4 verses
    83%

    16And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome them, they sent men to get the Aramaeans who were on the other side of the River, with Shophach, the captain of Hadadezer's army, at their head.

    17And word of this was given to David; and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam and put his forces in position against them. And when David's forces were in position against the Aramaeans, the fight was started.

    18And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven thousand Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and put to death Shophach, the captain of the army.

    19And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants: and the Aramaeans would give no more help to the children of Ammon.

  • 2 Sam 8:12-13
    2 verses
    83%

    12The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

    13And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 8:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

    7And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    79%

    7And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

  • 2 Sam 8:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.

    4And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

  • 1 Kgs 11:24
    75%

    24He got some men together and made himself captain of a band of outlaws; and went to Damascus and became king there.

  • 2 Sam 8:9
    75%

    9And when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer,

  • 1 Kgs 20:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    29Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day.

    30But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.

  • 2 Sam 10:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, they sent to the Aramaeans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, and got for payment twenty thousand footmen, and they got from the king of Maacah a thousand men, and from Tob twelve thousand.

    7And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.

    8And the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position at the way into the town: and the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob, with the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

  • 1 Kgs 20:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen.

    21And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.

  • 1 Chr 19:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver as payment for war-carriages and horsemen from Mesopotamia and Aram-maacah and Zobah.

    7So with this money they got thirty-two thousand war-carriages, and the help of the king of Maacah and his people, who came and took up their position in front of Medeba. And the children of Ammon came together from their towns for the fight.

    8And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

  • 1 Kgs 20:1
    74%

    1Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got all his army together, and thirty-two kings with him, and horses and carriages of war; he went up and made war on Samaria, shutting it in.

  • 1 Chr 18:9
    74%

    9Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    73%

    9And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

  • 1 Chr 12:23
    73%

    23These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

  • 1 Chr 18:12
    73%

    12And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    73%

    8And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.

  • 1 Kgs 20:27
    72%

    27And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    72%

    5And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

  • Judg 20:21
    72%

    21Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    71%

    8These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.

  • 1 Chr 19:14
    71%

    14So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    71%

    17And with him a thousand men of Benjamin, and Ziba, the servant of Saul, with his fifteen sons and twenty servants, came rushing to Jordan before the king,

  • 2 Sam 2:15
    71%

    15So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    71%

    13And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

  • 2 Chr 28:5
    70%

    5So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    70%

    31But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men