³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.^(A)

¹⁴ When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

¹³ David won a name for himself. When he returned, he killed eighteen thousand Edomites^[a] in the Valley of Salt.^{(A) 14} He put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.^(B)

David’s Wars

8 Some time afterward, David attacked the Philistines and subdued them; David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

² He also defeated the Moabites and, making them lie down on the ground, measured them off with a cord; he measured two lengths of cord for those who were to be put to death and one length^[a] for those who were to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.^(A)

¹⁸ Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley of Rephaim.^{(A) 19} David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?” The Lord said to David, “Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.”^{(B) 20} So David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. He said, “The Lord has burst forth against my enemies before me like a bursting flood.” Therefore that place is called Baal-perazim.^{[a](C) 21} The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.^(D)

²² Once again the Philistines came up and were spread out in the valley of Rephaim.^{(E) 23} When David inquired of the Lord, he said, “You shall not go up; go around to their rear and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.^{(F) 24} When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then be on the alert, for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”^{(G) 25} David did just as the Lord had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba all the way to Gezer.^(H)