1 Chronicles 19:12
Good News Translation
Joab said to him, "If you see that the Syrians are defeating me, come and help me, and if the Ammonites are defeating you, I will go and help you.

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.

Contemporary English Version
Joab told his brother, "If the Syrians are too much for me to handle, come and help me. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I'll come and help you.

New American Bible
And he said: “If the Arameans prove too strong for me, you must come and save me; and if the Ammonites prove too strong for you, I will save you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, I will help thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, I will help thee.

If the Syrians

Nehemiah 4:20 In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us: our God will fight for us.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society: . . .

Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.

Philippians 1:27,28 Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel. . . .

Context
David Defeats Ammon and Aram
11And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abisai his brother, and they went against the children of Ammon. 12And he said: If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, I will help thee.13Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which is good in his sight.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 19:11
And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abisai his brother, and they went against the children of Ammon.

1 Chronicles 19:13
Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which is good in his sight.

1 Chronicles 19:11
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