1 Chronicles 20 WBT

Summary: In the spring, Israel's army under Joab besieges and captures Rabbah, the Ammonite capital, and David takes the crown from the Ammonite king's head, weighing a talent of gold, and treats the population as forced laborers. The chapter then briefly records a series of battles against the Philistines at Gezer and elsewhere, in which Israelite champions kill several descendants of the giant Rapha, including one with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; notably, Chronicles omits the Bathsheba and Uriah episode found in the parallel account in 2 Samuel.

1And it came to pass, that after the year had expired, at the time that kings go out [to battle], Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

2And David took the crown of their king from his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and [there were] precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also a great quantity of spoil out of the city.

3And he brought out the people that [were] in it, and cut [them] with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so David dealt with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

4And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, [that was] of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.

5And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear-staff [was] like a weaver's beam.

6And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant.

7But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him.

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

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