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+# Connecting Statement:
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+This verse continues to describe a second battle when the Arameans who fled from Joab in [1 Chronicles 19:15](../19/15.md) were reinforced by other Arameans and attacked Israel again.
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 # killed seven thousand ... forty thousand
 
 " killed 7,000 ... 40,000" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])