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After removing the people who were in the city, David demolished the city with saws, iron picks, and axes,[a] as he did to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

War with the Philistines

Once again war broke out at Gezer with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephah,[b] and the Philistines were subdued. In another war with the Philistines, Jair’s son Elhanan killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 20:3 Cf 2 Sam 12:31; MT saws
  2. 1 Chronicles 20:4 Or giants; also in 20:6-7

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