1 Chronicles
20
- In the spring, at the time when kings go
off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites
and went to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab
attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins.
- David took the crown from the head of their
king -- its weight was found to be a talent of gold, and it was set with precious
stones -- and it was placed on David's head. He took a great quantity of plunder
from the city
- and brought out the people who were there,
consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes. David did
this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to
Jerusalem.
- In the course of time, war broke out with
the Philistines, at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai,
one of the descendants of the Rephaites, and the Philistines were subjugated.
- In another battle with the Philistines,
Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had
a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod.
- In still another battle, which took place
at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on
each foot -- twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha.
- When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of
Shimea, David's brother, killed him.
- These were descendants of Rapha in Gath,
and they fell at the hands of David and his men.
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