9.約押看見敵人在他前後擺陣，就從以色列軍中挑選精兵，使他們對著亞蘭人擺陣。
Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.
10.其餘的兵交於他兄弟亞比篩，對著亞捫人擺陣。
He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and deployed them against the Ammonites.
11.約押對亞比篩說：「亞蘭人若強過我，你就來幫助我；亞捫人若強過你，我就去幫助你。
Joab said, 「If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you.
12.我們都當剛強，為本國的民和 神的城邑做大丈夫。耶和華憑他的意旨而行！」
Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight.」
13.於是，約押和跟隨他的人前進攻打亞蘭人；亞蘭人在約押面前逃跑。
Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled before him.
14.亞捫人見亞蘭人逃跑，他們也在亞比篩面前逃跑進城。約押就離開亞捫人那裏，回耶路撒冷去了。
When the Ammonites realized that the Arameans were fleeing, they fled before Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab returned from fighting the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.
15.亞蘭人見自己被以色列人打敗，就又聚集。
After the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they regrouped.
16.哈大底謝差遣人，將大河那邊的亞蘭人調來；他們到了希蘭，哈大底謝的將軍朔法率領他們。
Hadadezer had Arameans brought from beyond the Euphrates River; they went to Helam, with Shobak the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
17.有人告訴大衛，他就聚集以色列眾人，過約但河，來到希蘭。亞蘭人迎著大衛擺陣，與他打仗。
When David was told of this, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan and went to Helam. The Arameans formed their battle lines to meet David and fought against him.
18.亞蘭人在以色列人面前逃跑；大衛殺了亞蘭七百輛戰車的人，四萬馬兵，又殺了亞蘭的將軍朔法。
But they fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred of their charioteers and forty thousand of their foot soldiers.[a] He also struck down Shobak the commander of their army, and he died there.
Footnotes:
a. 2 Samuel 10:18 Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 19:18); Hebrew horsemen
19.屬哈大底謝的諸王見自己被以色列人打敗，就與以色列人和好，歸服他們。於是亞蘭人不敢再幫助亞捫人了。
When all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
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