and these were the children born to him there: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon. These four were by Bathsheba daughter of Ammiel.

There were also Ibhar, Elishua, Eliphelet,

There were also five others: Hashubah, Ohel, Berekiah, Hasadiah and Jushab-Hesed.

They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.

They found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful and quiet. Some Hamites had lived there formerly.

The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites who were there and completely destroyed them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.

They killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

The Temple Musicians

These are the men David put in charge of the music in the house of the Lord after the ark came to rest there.

All these sons of Jediael were heads of families. There were 17,200 fighting men ready to go out to war.

Then he made love to his wife again, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune in his family.

They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they had to guard it; and they had charge of the key for opening it each morning.

David Conquers Jerusalem

David and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus). The Jebusites who lived there

He was with David at Pas Dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At a place where there was a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.

The men spent three days there with David, eating and drinking, for their families had supplied provisions for them.

Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There were plentiful supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

David and all Israel went to Baalah of Judah (Kiriath Jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called by the Name.

The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.

These are the names of the children born to him there: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

So David and his men went up to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemies by my hand.” So that place was called Baal Perazim.

The Philistines had abandoned their gods there, and David gave orders to burn them in the fire.

David left Asaph and his associates before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister there regularly, according to each day’s requirements.

to present burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of burnt offering regularly, morning and evening, in accordance with everything written in the Law of the Lord, which he had given Israel.

“There is no one like you, Lord, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.

and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.