12. He said: “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you will help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.
13. Chazak! Take courage for the sake of our people and the cities of our God! Adonai will do what is good in His eyes.”
14. So Joab and the people who were with him advanced to battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.
15. When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they likewise fled before his brother Abishai and withdrew into the city. Then Joab went to Jerusalem.
16. After the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they sent messengers and had the Arameans brought from across the River with Shophah the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.