1 Chronicles
Chapter Twenty
1 ¶ It happened in
the spring of the year, at the time kings go out to battle, that Joab led out
the armed forces and ravaged the country of the people of Ammon, and came and
besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab defeated Rabbah and
overthrew it.
2 Then David took their king's crown from his head, and found it to weigh a
talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. And it was set on David's
head. Also he brought out the spoil of the city in great abundance.
3 And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws,
with iron picks, and with axes. So David did to all the cities of the people
of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
4 ¶ Now it happened afterward that war broke out at Gezer with the Philistines,
at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Sippai, who was one of the sons
of the giant. And they were subdued.
5 Again there was war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed
Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like
a weaver's beam.
6 Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, with
twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand and six on each foot; and he
also was born to the giant.
7 So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, killed
him.
8 These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and
by the hand of his servants.
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