<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about Damascus:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Look, Damascus is no longer a city,p> <p class="poetry">it is a heap of ruins!p>

He gathered some men and organized a raiding band.<n id="1" /> When David tried to kill them,<n id="2" /> they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.

<p class="poetry">For Syria&#8217;s leader is Damascus,p> <p class="poetry">and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.p> <p class="poetry">Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will set fire to the walls of Damascus;p> <p class="poetry">it will burn up the palaces of Ben Hadad.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Then, during the night,<n id="1" /> Abram<n id="2" /> divided his forces<n id="3" /> against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north<n id="4" /> of Damascus.

<p class="poetry">Is not Calneh like Carchemish?p> <p class="poetry">Hamath like Arpad?p> <p class="poetry">Samaria like Damascus?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The people of Damascus will lose heart and turn to flee.p> <p class="poetry">Panic will grip them.p> <p class="poetry">Pain and anguish will seize themp> <p class="poetry">like a woman in labor.p>

Damascus was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods and of all your wealth: wine from Helbon, white wool from Zahar,

<p class="poetry">and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">He is called the God who commands armies!p>

<p class="bodytext">When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there.<n id="1" /> King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design.<n id="2" />

Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus.<n id="1" /> Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">But Abram said, &#8220;O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> what will you give me since<n id="2" /> I continue to be<n id="3" /> childless, and my heir<n id="4" /> is<n id="5" /> Eliezer of Damascus?&#8221;<n id="6" />

The Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, but David killed 22,000 of the Arameans.

David placed garrisons in the territory of the Arameans of Damascus; the Arameans became David&#8217;s subjects and brought tribute. The <sc>Lordsc> protected<n id="1" /> David wherever he campaigned.<n id="2" />

The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.

The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel!<n id="1" /> Could I not wash in them and be healed?&#8221; So he turned around and went away angry.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king<n id="1" /> was told, &#8220;The prophet<n id="2" /> has come here.&#8221;

The king of Assyria responded favorably to his request;<n id="1" /> he<n id="2" /> attacked Damascus and captured it. He deported the people<n id="3" /> to Kir and executed Rezin.p>

When the king arrived back from Damascus and<n id="1" /> saw the altar, he approached it<n id="2" /> and offered a sacrifice on it.<n id="3" />

The Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, but David killed 22,000 of the Arameans.