2 Samuel 8:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 Kgs 8:65 : 65 So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.
  • 1 Chr 18:9 : 9 Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,
  • 2 Chr 8:4 : 4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;
  • Amos 6:2 : 2 Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?

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  • 1 Chr 18:1-11
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    1And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.

    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.

    8And from Tibhath and from Cun, towns of Hadadezer, David took a great store of brass, of which Solomon made the great brass water-vessel and the brass pillars and vessels.

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

    10He sent his son Hadoram to King David, to give him words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had been at war with Tou; and he gave him all sorts of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

    11These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold he had taken from all nations; from Edom and Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines and from Amalek.

  • 2 Sam 8:10-13
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    86%

    10He sent his son Hadoram to David, with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels of silver and gold and brass:

    11These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he had taken from the nations he had overcome--

    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 8:1-8
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    1And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.

    2And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.

    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.

    5And 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.

    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.

    8And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
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    8And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

  • 1 Chr 19:19
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    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 10:6-8
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 10:16-19
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    74%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 8:3
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    3And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.

  • 1 Chr 19:16-17
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 19:6
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
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    8And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.

  • 2 Sam 10:1-3
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    1Now after this, death came to the king of the children of Ammon, and Hanun, his son, became king in his place.

    2And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father was a friend to me. So David sent his servants, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

    3But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father by sending comforters to you? has he not sent his servants to go through the town and make secret observation of it, and overcome it?

  • 1 Chr 14:8
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    8And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over all Israel, they went up in search of David, and David, hearing of it, went out against them.

  • 2 Sam 12:29
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    29Then David got all the people together and went to Rabbah and made war on it and took it.

  • 2 Sam 11:18
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    18Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:

  • 1 Kgs 11:21
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    21Now when Hadad had news in Egypt that David had been put to rest with his fathers, and that Joab, the captain of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, Send me back to my country.

  • 1 Chr 19:2-3
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    69%

    2And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of the children of Ammon, offering him comfort.

    3But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father, by sending comforters to you? is it not clear that these men have only come to go through the land and to make secret observation of it so that they may overcome it?

  • 1 Chr 20:8
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    8These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.

  • 2 Sam 11:7
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    7And when Uriah came to him, David put questions to him about how Joab and the people were, and how the war was going.

  • 1 Chr 14:16
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    16And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer.

  • 1 Chr 11:9
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    9And David became greater and greater in power, because the Lord of armies was with him.