KJV King James Version
And when David heard of [it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
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2 Samuel 10:7
And when David heard of [it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men.
WEB World English Bible
When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
ASV American Standard Version
And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and David heareth, and sendeth Joab, and all the host—the mighty men.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 10
4 Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, [even] to their buttocks, and sent them away.
5 When they told [it] unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and [then] return.
6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
7 And when David heard of [it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, [were] by themselves in the field.
9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice [men] of Israel, and put [them] in array against the Syrians:
10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put [them] in array against the children of Ammon.
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2 Samuel 23:8-39These [be] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same [was] Adino the Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.1 Chronicles 19:8-19And when David heard [of it], he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
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