1 Chronicles 20

1 Chronicles 20:1

In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.

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1 Chronicles 20:2

Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David's head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

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it Heb. the weight of it

1 Chronicles 20:3

David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

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and cut Instead of wyyasar , "and he cut ," the parallel passage is wyyasem , "and he put them;" which is also the reading here of seven manuscripts collated by Dr. Kennicott. Sawing asunder , etc. , of human beings , have no more place in the text , than they had in David's conduct towards the Ammonites.

1 Chronicles 20:4

Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.

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the giant or , Rapha

1 Chronicles 20:5

Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

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1 Chronicles 20:6

And there was still another battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,

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the son of the giant Heb. born to the giant , or Rapha

1 Chronicles 20:7

and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David's brother Shimei killed him.

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1 Chronicles 20:8

So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

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