“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear. So they cried out for help to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets,

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans.