12. Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.
13. And Joab and the people that were with him, began to fight against the Syrians: and they immediately fled before him.
14. And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled, they fled also before Abisai, and entered into the city: and Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
15. Then the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel, gathered themselves together.
16. And Adarezer sent and fetched the Syrians, that were beyond the river, and brought over their army: and Sobach, the captain of the host of Adarezer, was their general.