2 Samuel 10

New American Standard Bible

Ammon and Aram Defeated

10 ^(A)Now it happened afterward that ^(B)the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king in his place. ²Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of ^(C)Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent ^[a]some of his servants to console him about his father. But when David’s servants came to the land of the Ammonites, ³the commanders of the Ammonites said to their lord Hanun, “^[b]Do you think that David is simply honoring your father since he has sent you servants ^[c]to console you? ^(D)Has David not sent his servants to you in order to explore the city, to spy it out and overthrow it?” ⁴So Hanun took David’s servants and ^(E)shaved off half of their beards, and ^(F)cut off their robes in the middle as far as their buttocks, and sent them away. ⁵When messengers informed David, he sent servants to meet them, because the men were extremely humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back, and then you shall return.”

⁶Now when the sons of Ammon saw that ^(G)they had become repulsive to David, the sons of Ammon sent messengers and ^(H)hired the Arameans of ^(I)Beth-rehob and the ^(J)Arameans of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of ^(K)Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob with twelve thousand men. ⁷When David heard about this, he sent Joab and all the army, the warriors. ⁸And the sons of Ammon came out and lined up for battle ^(L)at the entrance of the ^[d]city, while the Arameans of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of ^(M)Tob and Maacah were stationed by themselves in the field.

⁹Now when Joab saw that ^[e]the battle was set against him at the front and at the rear, he selected warriors from all the choice men in Israel, and lined them up against the Arameans. ¹⁰But the remainder of the people he placed ^[f]under the command of his brother Abishai, and he lined them up against the sons of Ammon. ¹¹And he said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the sons of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come to help you. ¹²^(N)Be strong, and let’s show ourselves courageous for the sake of our people and the cities of our God; and ^(O)may the Lord do what is good in His sight.” ¹³So Joab and the people who were with him advanced to the battle against the Arameans, and ^(P)they fled from him. ¹⁴When the sons of Ammon saw that the Arameans had fled, they also fled from Abishai and entered the city. ^(Q)Then Joab returned from fighting against the sons of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

¹⁵When the Arameans saw that they had been ^[g]defeated by Israel, they assembled together. ¹⁶^(R)And Hadadezer sent word and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the Euphrates River, and they came to Helam; and ^(S)Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer ^[h]led them. ¹⁷Now when it was reported to David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Arameans lined up against David and fought him. ¹⁸But the Arameans fled from Israel, and David killed ^(T)seven hundred charioteers of the Arameans and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there. ¹⁹When all the kings, servants of Hadadezer, saw that they had been ^[i]defeated by Israel, ^(U)they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the sons of Ammon anymore.

Footnotes

2 Samuel 10:2 Lit by the hand of
2 Samuel 10:3 Lit In your eyes is David honoring
2 Samuel 10:3 Lit consoling
2 Samuel 10:8 Lit gate
2 Samuel 10:9 Lit the faces of the battle were against
2 Samuel 10:10 Lit in the hand of
2 Samuel 10:15 Lit struck
2 Samuel 10:16 Lit was before them
2 Samuel 10:19 Lit struck

2 Corinthians 3

New American Standard Bible

Ministers of a New Covenant

3 Are we beginning to ^(A)commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, ^(B)letters of commendation to you or from you? ²^(C)You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all people, ³revealing yourselves, that you are a letter of Christ, ^[a]^(D)delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of ^(E)the living God, not on ^(F)tablets of stone but on ^(G)tablets of ^[b]^(H)human hearts.

⁴Such is the ^(I)confidence we have toward God through Christ. ⁵Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but ^(J)our adequacy is from God, ⁶who also made us adequate as ^(K)servants of a ^(L)new covenant, not of ^(M)the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but ^(N)the Spirit gives life.

⁷But if the ^(O)ministry of death, engraved ^(P)in letters on stones, came ^[c]with glory ^(Q)so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, ⁸how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? ⁹For if ^(R)the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ^(S)ministry of righteousness excel in glory. ¹⁰For indeed what had glory in this case has no glory, because of the glory that surpasses it. ¹¹For if that which fades away was ^[d]with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

¹²^(T)Therefore, having such a hope, ^(U)we use great boldness in our speech, ¹³and we are not like Moses, ^(V)who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was fading away. ¹⁴But their minds were ^(W)hardened; for until this very day at the ^(X)reading of ^(Y)the old covenant the same veil ^[e]remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. ¹⁵But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts; ¹⁶^(Z)but whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. ¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where ^(AA)the Spirit of the Lord is, ^(AB)there is freedom. ¹⁸But we all, with unveiled faces, ^(AC)looking as in a mirror at the ^(AD)glory of the Lord, are being ^(AE)transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from ^(AF)the Lord, the Spirit.

Footnotes

2 Corinthians 3:3 Lit served
2 Corinthians 3:3 Lit hearts of flesh
2 Corinthians 3:7 Or in glory
2 Corinthians 3:11 Lit through
2 Corinthians 3:14 Or remains, it not being revealed that it is done away in Christ