^6 (A)And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant; and ^(C)the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. ^7 (D)So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, ^(E)until the time of his land comes; ^(F)and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them. ⁸ And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,’ says the Lord, ‘with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

Cyrus, God’s Instrument

Naaman’s Leprosy Healed

5 Now ^(A)Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was ^(B)a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.

¹⁶ Then Ishbi-Benob, who was one of the sons of ^[a]the ^(A)giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred shekels, who was bearing a new sword, thought he could kill David. ¹⁷ But ^(B)Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, ^(C)“You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the ^(D)lamp of Israel.”

⁶ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought tribute. So ^(A)the Lord preserved David wherever he went. ⁷ And David took ^(B)the shields of gold that had belonged to the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. ⁸ Also from ^[a]Betah and from ^(C)Berothai,^[b] cities of Hadadezer, King David took a large amount of bronze.

⁹ When ^[c]Toi king of ^(D)Hamath heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer, ¹⁰ then Toi sent ^[d]Joram his son to King David, to ^[e]greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him (for Hadadezer had been at war with Toi); and Joram brought with him articles of silver, articles of gold, and articles of bronze. ¹¹ King David also ^(E)dedicated these to the Lord, along with the silver and gold that he had dedicated from all the nations which he had subdued— ¹² from ^[f]Syria, from Moab, from the people of Ammon, from the ^(F)Philistines, from Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

¹³ And David made himself a ^(G)name when he returned from killing ^(H)eighteen thousand ^[g]Syrians in ^(I)the Valley of Salt. ¹⁴ He also put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and ^(J)all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.