Rabbah Is Captured^(A)

²⁶ Now ^(B)Joab fought against ^(C)Rabbah of the people of Ammon, and took the royal city. ²⁷ And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah, and I have taken the city’s water supply. ²⁸ Now therefore, gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called after my name.”

The Assurance of God’s Saving Work

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

²⁹ So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, fought against it, and took it. ^30 (A)Then he took their king’s crown from his head. Its weight was a talent of gold, with precious stones. And it was set on David’s head. Also he brought out the ^[a]spoil of the city in great abundance. ³¹ And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over to the brick works. So he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Joy in the Salvation of the Lord

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

David’s Further Conquests^(A)

18 After this ^(B)it came to pass that David ^[a]attacked the Philistines, subdued them, and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines.

Philistine Giants Destroyed^(A)

¹⁵ When the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint. ¹⁶ Then Ishbi-Benob, who was one of the sons of ^[a]the ^(B)giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred shekels, who was bearing a new sword, thought he could kill David. ¹⁷ But ^(C)Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, ^(D)“You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the ^(E)lamp of Israel.”

Philistine Giants Destroyed^(A)

⁴ Now it happened afterward ^(B)that war broke out at ^[a]Gezer with the Philistines, at which time ^(C)Sibbechai the Hushathite killed ^[b]Sippai, who was one of the sons of ^[c]the giant. And they were subdued.

⁵ Again there was war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of ^[d]Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s ^(D)beam.

⁶ Yet again ^(E)there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, with twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand and six on each foot; and he also was born to ^[e]the giant. ⁷ So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of ^[f]Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.

⁸ These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

² Then ^(A)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 ^(B)servants, and ^(C)brought tribute.

³ David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of ^(D)Zobah, as he went to recover ^(E)his territory at the River Euphrates. ⁴ David took from him one thousand chariots, ^[a]seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. Also David ^(F)hamstrung all the chariot horses, except that he spared enough of them for one hundred chariots.

^5 (G)When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians. ⁶ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought tribute. So ^(H)the Lord preserved David wherever he went. ⁷ And David took ^(I)the shields of gold that had belonged to the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

⁸ Also from ^[a]Tibhath and from ^[b]Chun, cities of ^[c]Hadadezer, David brought a large amount of ^(A)bronze, with which ^(B)Solomon made the bronze ^[d]Sea, the pillars, and the articles of bronze.