1 Chronicles 20
Joab led the army to lay waste to the land of the sons of Ammon, besieged Rabbah, and destroyed it, with David taking the crown of Milcom and the city's spoils. David then led the people of Rabbah away and subjected them to harsh treatment, including being cut apart and crushed by plows and iron chariots. David also led his people to victory in wars against the Philistines, with his servants defeating giants, including Sippai, the brother of Goliath, and a man with six digits. These victories were won by David and his servants, including Jonathan, the son of Shimea, and Sibbecai the Hushathite.
1Now it happened that, after the course of a year, in the time when kings usually go forth to war, Joab gathered an army with experienced soldiers, and he laid waste to the land of the sons of Ammon. And he continued on and besieged Rabbah. But David was staying in Jerusalem when Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it2Then David took the crown of Milcom from his head, and he found in it the weight of one talent of gold, and very precious gems. And he made for himself a diadem from it. Also, he took the best spoils of the city, which were very many3Then he led away the people who were in it. And he caused plows, and sleds, and iron chariots to go over them, so much so that they were cut apart and crushed. So did David treat all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And he returned with all his people to Jerusalem4After these things, a war was begun at Gezer against the Philistines, in which Sibbecai the Hushathite struck Sippai from the race of the Rephaim, and he humbled them5Also, another war was undertaken against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus, a son of the forest, a Bethlehemite, struck the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the wood of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam6Then too, another war occurred in Gath, in which there was a very tall man, having six digits, that is, all together twenty-four. This man too was born from the stock of the Rephaim7He blasphemed Israel. And Jonathan, the son of Shimea, the brother of David, struck him down.8These were the sons of the Rephaim in Gath, who fell by the hand of David and his servants.
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