7. So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, with the king of Maakah and his people. They camped before Medeba as the Ammonites gathered from their cities to go out to war.
8. When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.
9. So the Ammonites went out and formed ranks for battle at the entrance to the city while the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.
10. When Joab saw the battle line was drawn in front of him and behind him, he chose some of the best men in Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.
11. The rest of the people he placed in the charge of his brother Abishai, and they took up positions to engage the Ammonites.
12. Then he said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you will come help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I will come help you.
13. Take courage, and let us prove worthy of our people and the cities of our God. May the Lord do what seems right to Him.”
14. So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him.
15. When the Ammonites saw the Arameans fleeing, they also fled before Abishai his brother and entered the city. So Joab returned to Jerusalem.
16. When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and summoned the Arameans who were beyond the River, and Shophak, the commander of Hadadezer’s army went before them.