⁶ When the people of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the people of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from ^[a]Mesopotamia, from Syrian Maacah, ^(A)and from ^[b]Zobah.

⁹ Now when ^[a]Tou king of Hamath heard that David had ^[b]defeated all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,

⁵ When the ^(A)Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians.

⁶ When the people of Ammon saw that they ^(A)had made themselves repulsive to David, the people of Ammon sent and hired ^(B)the Syrians of ^(C)Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand foot soldiers; and from the king of ^(D)Maacah one thousand men, and from ^(E)Ish-Tob twelve thousand men.

³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, ^(A)“You have ^(B)troubled me ^(C)by making me obnoxious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; ^(D)and since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my household and I.”

^8 (A)Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, ^(B)who^[a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.

^16 (A)He who hears you hears Me, ^(B)he who rejects you rejects Me, and ^(C)he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”