24 And he kept collecting men to his side and came to be chief of a marauder band, when David killed them.*+ So they went to Damascus+ and took up dwelling in it and began reigning in Damascus.

8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Reʹzin; and within just sixty-five years Eʹphra·im will be shattered to pieces so as not to be a people.+