Saul’s Continuing Wars

⁴⁷ So Saul established his sovereignty over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the people of ^(A)Ammon, against Edom, against the kings of ^(B)Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he ^[a]harassed them.

¹⁶ Then ^[a]Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond ^[b]the River, and they came to Helam. And ^[c]Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army went before them.

¹⁹ And when all the kings who were servants to ^[a]Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and ^(A)served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the people of Ammon anymore.