Da ammonittene innså at de var blitt hatefulle for David, sendte de bud og leide inn syrerne fra Bet-Rehob og syrerne fra Soba, tjue tusen fotsoldater, og av kong Maakas menn tusen, samt tolv tusen fra landet Tob.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.