King James Version
“And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.”
1 Chronicles 19:19 · KJV
And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen , and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
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“saw”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“that they were put to the worse”
H5062to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“they made peace”
H7999to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“and became his servants”
H5647to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“the Syrians”
H758aram or syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of shem, a grandson of nahor, and of an israelite
“help”
H3467properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e., (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
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