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Chapter 20 |
| 1 | And it came to
pass, that after the year was 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. |
| 2 | And David took the crown of
their king from off 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 exceeding much spoil out of the city. |
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3 | And he brought out the
people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and
with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon.
And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. |
| 4 | And 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. |
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5 | And 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. |
| 6 | And 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. |
| 7 | But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son
of Shimea David's brother slew him. |
| 8 | These were born unto the giant
in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his
servants. |
