Be strong and courageous! Let's fight hard for our people and for the cities of our God. And may the LORD's will be done."

Joab and his men advanced to attack, and the Syrians fled.

He is the God who makes me strong, who makes my pathway safe.

A king does not win because of his powerful army; a soldier does not triumph because of his strength.

The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

and the Israelites drove the Syrian army back. David and his men killed seven hundred Syrian chariot drivers and forty thousand cavalry, and they wounded Shobach, the enemy commander, who died on the battlefield.