2 At this Aʹbram said: “Sovereign Lord Jehovah,* what will you give me, seeing that I am going childless and the one who will possess my house is a man of Damascus, E·li·eʹzer?”+

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.

27 “And I will set a fire ablaze on the wall of Damascus, and it will certainly devour the dwelling towers of Ben-haʹdad.”+

5 And I will break the bar of Damascus+ and cut off [the] inhabitant from Bikʹath-aʹven,* and the holder of [the] scepter from Beth-eʹden;* and the people of Syria* will have to go as exiles to Kir,”+ Jehovah has said.’