^37 (A)Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

¹⁴ When the people of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fleeing, they also fled before Abishai, and entered the city. So Joab returned from the people of Ammon and went to ^(A)Jerusalem.

¹³ And David made himself a ^(A)name when he returned from killing ^(B)eighteen thousand ^[a]Syrians in ^(C)the Valley of Salt. ¹⁴ He also put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and ^(D)all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.

David’s Further Conquests^(A)

8 After this it came to pass that David ^[a]attacked the Philistines and subdued them. And David took ^[b]Metheg Ammah from the hand of the Philistines.

² Then ^(B)he defeated Moab. Forcing them down to the ground, he measured them off with a line. With two lines he measured off those to be put to death, and with one full line those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David’s ^(C)servants, and ^(D)brought tribute.

¹⁸ The Philistines also went and deployed themselves in ^(A)the Valley of Rephaim. ¹⁹ So David ^(B)inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?”

And the Lord said to David, “Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

²⁰ So David went to ^(C)Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there; and he said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me, like a breakthrough of water.” Therefore he called the name of that place ^[a]Baal Perazim. ²¹ And they left their ^[b]images there, and David and his men ^(D)carried them away.

^22 (E)Then the Philistines went up once again and deployed themselves in the Valley of Rephaim. ²³ Therefore ^(F)David inquired of the Lord, and He said, “You shall not go up; circle around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees. ²⁴ And it shall be, when you ^(G)hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then ^(H)the Lord will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.” ²⁵ And David did so, as the Lord commanded him; and he drove back the Philistines from ^(I)Geba^[c] as far as ^(J)Gezer.