~ The Ammorites and the Arameans ~

When the Ammonites realized
that they had become a stench in David's nostrils,
they hired twenty thousand
Aramean foot soldiers from Beth Rehob and Zobah,
as well as the king of Maacah with a thousand men,
and also twelve thousand men from Tob.

After the Arameans saw
that they had been routed by Israel,
they regrouped.
Hadadezer had Arameans
brought from beyond the River;
they went to Helam,
with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer's army
leading them.

When David was told of this,
he gathered all Israel,
crossed the Jordan and went to Helam.
The Arameans formed their battle lines to meet David
and fought against him.
But they fled before Israel,
and David killed seven hundred of their charioteers
and forty thousand of their foot soldiers.
He also struck down
Shobach the commander of their army,
and he died there.
when all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer
saw that they had been defeated by Israel,
they made peace with the Israelites
and became subject to them.

So the Arameans were afraid
to help the Ammonites anymore.

(II Samuel 10:6, 15-19)