The Capture of Rabbah^(A)

20 Later the next spring, at the time that kings go out to fight, Joab led out the army, ravaged the territory of the Ammonites, and then went out and attacked Rabbah, while David remained behind in Jerusalem. Joab besieged Rabbah and conquered it. ² David confiscated the crown of their king^[a] from his head, and found that its weight was a talent^[b] in gold. A precious stone had been set in it, and it was placed on David’s head. He also confiscated a great amount of war booty that had been plundered from the city, ³ brought back the people who had lived in it, and put them to conscripted labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. David did this to every Ammonite city, and then David and his entire army^[c] returned to Jerusalem.

Fighting Philistine Giants^(B)

⁴ Afterwards, war broke out against the Philistines at Gezer, where Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim,^[d] defeating the Philistines. ⁵ There was also another battle against the Philistines, when Jair’s son Elhanan killed Lahmi the Gittite, Goliath’s brother, whose spear was as big as^[e] a weaver’s beam. ⁶ There was also a battle at Gath, where there was a very tall man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—for a total of 24 digits—who was a descendant of the Rephaim.^{[f] 7} When he challenged Israel, Shimei’s son Jonathan, David’s nephew,^[g] killed him. ⁸ These descendants from the giants in Gath died at the hands of David and his servants.