Partly, to wipe out the stain of cowardice which they had now contracted; partly, to prevent that vengeance which they supposed David would execute upon them for their last attempt; and partly, to shake off the yoke that David had lately put upon them.
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2 Samuel 10:15
15 And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together.