1 Chronicles 18

¹ And it comes to pass after this, that David smites the Philistines, and humbles them, and takes Gath and its small towns out of the hand of the Philistines; ² and he smites Moab, and the Moabites are servants to David, bringing a present. ³ And David smites Hadarezer king of Zobah, at Hamath, in his going to establish his power by the river Phrat, ⁴ and David captures from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David destroys utterly all the chariots, and leaves of them a hundred chariots [only]. ⁵ And Aram of Damascus comes in to give help to Hadarezer king of Zobah, and David smites in Aram twenty and two thousand men, ⁶ and David puts [garrisons] in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans are to David for servants, bearing a present, and Yahweh gives salvation to David whithersoever he has gone. ⁷ And David takes the shields of gold that have been on the servants of Hadarezer, and brings them in to Jerusalem; ⁸ and from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, has David taken very much brass; with it has Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. ⁹ And Tou king of Hamath hears that David has smitten the whole force of Hadarezer king of Zobah, ¹⁰ and he sends Hadoram his son unto king David, to ask of him of peace, and to bless him, (because that he has fought against Hadarezer, and smites him, for a man of wars with Tou had Hadarezer been) and all kinds of vessels, of gold, and silver, and brass; ¹¹ also them has king David sanctified to Yahweh with the silver and the gold that he has taken from all the nations, from Edom, and from Moab, and from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. ¹² And Abishai son of Zeruiah has smitten Edom in the valley of salt - eighteen thousand, ¹³ and he puts in Edom garrisons, and all the Edomites are servants to David; and Yahweh saves David whithersoever he has gone. ¹⁴ And David reigns over all Israel, and he is doing judgment and righteousness to all his people, ¹⁵ and Joab son of Zeruiah [is] over the host, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud [is] remembrancer, ¹⁶ and Zadok son of Ahitub, and Abimelech son of Abiathar, [are] priests, and Shavsha [is] scribe, ¹⁷ and Benaiah son of Jehoiada [is] over the Cherethite and the Pelethite, and the elder sons of David [are] at the hand of the king.