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And Dauid went out to meete them, and answered and sayd vnto them: If yee bee come peaceably vnto me to helpe me, mine heart shall be knit vnto you: but if yee be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands: the God of our fathers looke thereon, and rebuke it.

1611 marginal noteHeb. before them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. be one

1611 marginal noteOr, violence.

For at that time day by day, there came to Dauid to helpe him, vntill it was a great hoste, like the hoste of God.

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to helpe Hadarezer king of Zobah, Dauid slew of the Syrians two and twentie thousand men.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Darmesek.

And he said, If the Syrians bee too strong for me, then thou shalt helpe me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I wil helpe thee.

And when the seruants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Dauid, and became his seruants: neither would the Syrians helpe the children of Ammon any more.

¶ Dauid also commanded all the Princes of Israel to helpe Solomon his sonne, saying,