battle

And Dauid said vnto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell mee. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battell, and many of the people also are fallen and dead, and Saul and Ionathan his sonne are dead also.

1611 marginal noteHeb. what was &c.

How are the mightie fallen in the midst of the battell! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine high places.

And there was a very sore battell that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the seruants of Dauid.

So Ioab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slaine their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battell.

1611 marginal noteChap. 2.23.

And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battell in aray at the entring in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselues in the field.

When Ioab saw that the front of the battell was against him, before and behind, he chose of all the choise men of Israel, and put them in aray against the Syrians.

And Ioab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, vnto the battell against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

¶ And it came to passe, that after the yeere was expired, at the time when kings goe foorth to battell, that Dauid sent Ioab and his seruants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah: but Dauid taried still at Ierusalem.

1611 marginal noteHeb. at the returne of the yeere.

1611 marginal note1.Chron. 20.1.

And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set yee Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battel, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

1611 marginal noteHeb. strong

1611 marginal noteHeb. from after him.

Then Dauid said vnto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say vnto Ioab, Let not this thing displease thee: for the sword deuoureth one as well as another: Make thy battell more strong against the citie, and ouerthrow it; and encourage thou him.

1611 marginal noteHeb. be euill in thine eyes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. so and such.