2 Samuel 8:1-3

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David's Military Victories^(A)

8 Some time later King David attacked the Philistines again, defeated them, and ended their control over the land.^[a]

² Then he defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.

³ Then he defeated the king of the Syrian state of Zobah, Hadadezer son of Rehob, as Hadadezer was on his way to restore his control over the territory by the upper Euphrates River.