When Joab saw that the battle line was against him before and behind, he chose some of Israel's best, and put them in battle array against the Syrians.
1 Chronicles 19:10
Surrounding context
19:9 Then the people of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array before the gate of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
19:10 When Joab saw that the battle line was against him before and behind, he chose some of Israel's best, and put them in battle array against the Syrians.
19:11 And the rest of the people he put under the command of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in battle array against the people of Ammon.