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1 Chronicles 20

(CLV) 1 Chronicles 20

1 And it comes to pass, at the time of the turn of the year - at the time of the going out of the messengers - that Joab leads out the force of the host, and destroys the land of the sons of Ammon, and comes in and besieges Rabbah - David is abiding in Jerusalem - and Joab smites Rabbah, and breaks it down. 2 And David takes the crown of their king from off his head, and finds it [in] weight a talent of gold, and in it a precious stone, and it is on the head of David: and spoil of the city he has brought out very much, 3 and the people who [are] in it he has brought out, and sets to the saw, and to cutting instruments of iron, and to axes; and thus does David to all cities of the sons of Ammon, and David turns back, and all the people, to Jerusalem. 4 And it comes to pass, after this, that there remains war in Gezer with the Philistines, then has Sibbechai the Hushathite smitten Sippai, of the children of the giant, and they are humbled. 5 And there is again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair smites Lahmi, brother of Goliath the Gittite, the wood of whose spear [is] like a beam of weavers. 6 And there is again war in Gath, and there is a man of measure, and his fingers and his toes [are] six and six, twenty and four, and also, he has been born to the giant. 7 And he reproaches Israel, and smite him does Jonathan son of Shimea, brother of David. 8 These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fall by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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