³ Then David ^[a]defeated ^(A)Hadadezer, the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as ^(B)he went to restore his ^[b]rule at the ^[c]River.

⁵ When ^(A)the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David ^[a]killed 22,000 Arameans.

⁶ For ^(A)the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us ^(B)the kings of the Hittites and ^(C)the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”