¹³ Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which is good in his sight.

¹⁴ So Joab and the people that were with him, went against the Syrians to the battle: and he put them to flight.

¹⁵ And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled from Abisai his brother, and went into the city: and Joab also returned to Jerusalem.