5 When Syria* of Damascus came to help Had·ad·eʹzer the king of Zoʹbah,+ David went striking down among the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.

23 For Damascus:+ “Haʹmath+ and Arʹpad+ have become ashamed, for it is a bad report that they have heard. They have disintegrated.+ In the sea there is anxious care; it is not able to keep undisturbed.+

5 And I will break the bar of Damascus+ and cut off [the] inhabitant from Bikʹath-aʹven,* and the holder of [the] scepter from Beth-eʹden;* and the people of Syria* will have to go as exiles to Kir,”+ Jehovah has said.’