6 In time the sons of Amʹmon saw that they had become foul-smelling+ to David, and the sons of Amʹmon proceeded to send and hire Syrians of Beth-reʹhob+ and Syrians of Zoʹbah,+ twenty thousand men on foot, and the king of Maʹa·cah,+ a thousand men, and Ishʹtob,* twelve thousand men.

2 And a report was made to the house of David, saying: “Syria has leaned* upon Eʹphra·im.”+

And his heart and the heart of his people began to quiver, like the quivering of the trees of the forest because of a wind.*+