1st Chronicles Chapter 19 verse 16 Holy Bible
And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
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And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome them, they sent men to get the Aramaeans who were on the other side of the River, with Shophach, the captain of Hadadezer's army, at their head.
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And when the Syrians saw that they were routed before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river; and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.
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And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
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And when the Syrians saw that they were defeated before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
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When the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
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And Aram seeth that they have been smitten before Israel, and send messengers, and bring out Aram that `is' beyond the River, and Shophach head of the host of Hadarezer `is' before them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - Beyond the river; i.e. the river Euphrates. Shophach. In the parallel place spelt Shobach. Of him nothing else is known except his death, as recorded in ver. 18 and in 2 Samuel 10:18.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16-19) The last effort of the Arameans. They are defeated, and become vassals to David.(16) They sent messengers.--Samuel, "Hadarezer sent and drew forth" (literally, made to come out: i.e., to war, 1Chronicles 20:1). The name "Hadarezer" (Hadadezer) is important, as helping us to identify this campaign with that of 1Chronicles 18:3-8.Beyond the river.--The Euphrates, called Purat, Puratu, by the Babylonians and Assyrians, Furat by the Arabs, and Ufratus by the ancient Persians. The name is derived from the Accadian Pura-nunu (great river). The Assyrian Purat, Hebrew P?rath, is simply the word Pura with a feminine ending; so that this well-known name means "The River par excellence. (Comp. Genesis 15:18; Isaiah 8:7.)The use of this phrase, "beyond the river," to denote the position of the Eastern Aramaeans, shows that the narrative here borrowed by the chronicler was originally written in Palestine. The Syriac and Arabic add here, "and they came to Hilam." (So Samuel; see next verse.) . . .
