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  • David Captures Rabbah

    In the spring of the year,a when kings normally go out to war, Joab led the Israelite army in successful attacks against the land of the Ammonites. In the process he laid siege to the city of Rabbah, attacking and destroying it. However, David stayed behind in Jerusalem.
  • The Plunder of Rabbah

    And it came to pass at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that Joab led forth the power of the army, and laid waste the land of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David abode at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and overthrew it.
  • Then David went to Rabbah and removed the crown from the king’s head,b and it was placed on his own head. The crown was made of gold and set with gems, and he found that it weighed seventy-five pounds.c David took a vast amount of plunder from the city.
  • And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was [set] upon David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
  • He also made slaves of the people of Rabbah and forced them to labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes.d That is how David dealt with the people of all the Ammonite towns. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
  • And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with the saw, and with harrows of iron, and with saws. And so David did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

  • Battles against Philistine Giants

    After this, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. As they fought, Sibbecai from Hushah killed Saph,e a descendant of the giants,f and so the Philistines were subdued.
  • Philistine Giants Slain

    And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbechai the Hushathite smote Sippai, one of the children of Rapha; and they were subdued.
  • During another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath of Gath. The handle of Lahmi’s spear was as thick as a weaver’s beam!
  • And there was again a battle with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair smote Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite; now the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.
  • In another battle with the Philistines at Gath, they encountered a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all, who was also a descendant of the giants.
  • And there was again a battle, at Gath; and there was a man [there] of great stature, whose fingers [and toes] were four and twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]; and he also was born to Rapha.
  • But when he defied and taunted Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David’s brother Shimea.
  • And he defied Israel; but Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother smote him.
  • These Philistines were descendants of the giants of Gath, but David and his warriors killed them.
  • These were born to Rapha in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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