<p class="bodytext">The sons of Shem were Elam,<n id="1" /> Asshur,<n id="2" /> Arphaxad,<n id="3" /> Lud,<n id="4" /> and Aram.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">The sons of his brother<n id="1" /> Shemer:<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">Rohgah, Hubbah,<n id="3" /> and Aram.p>

Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman&#8217;s wife.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The sons of Shem:p> <p class="bodytext">Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.p> <p class="bodytext">The sons of Aram:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.<n id="2" />p>

The Ammonites marched out and were deployed for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the men from Aram Zobah, Rehob, Ish-tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field.p>

When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks<n id="1" /> of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

(Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair,<n id="1" /> along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.p>

Tell him, &#8216;Make sure you stay calm!<n id="1" /> Don&#8217;t be afraid! Don&#8217;t be intimidated<n id="2" /> by these two stubs of smoking logs,<n id="3" /> or by the raging anger of Rezin, Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;You Israelites are just like the Ethiopians in my sight,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Certainly I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">but I also brought the Philistines from Caphtor<n id="2" /> and the Arameans from Kir.<n id="3" />p>