I Chronicles

aCf. 2 Sam. 11.1; 12.30–31. At the turn of the year, the season when kings go out [to battle], Joab led out the army force and devastated the land of Ammon, and then besieged Rabbah, while David remained in Jerusalem; Joab reduced Rabbah and left it in ruins.

David took the crown from the head of their king; he found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones. It was placed on David’s head. He also carried off a vast amount of booty from the city.

He led out the people who lived there and he hacked thembhe hacked them Meaning of Heb. uncertain; cf. 2 Sam. 12.31, “set them to work.” with saws and iron threshing boards and axes;caxes Heb. megeroth; cf. 2 Sam. 12.31 magzeroth, “axes.” David did thus to all the towns of Ammon. Then David and all the troops returned to Jerusalem.

After this, fighting broke out with the Philistines at Gezer; that was when Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and they were humbled.

Again there was fighting with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite; his spear had a shaft like a weaver’s beam.

Once again there was fighting at Gath. There was a giant of a man who had twenty-four fingers [and toes], six [on each hand] and six [on each foot]; he too was descended from the Raphah.

When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of David’s brother Shimea killed him.

These were descended from the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hands of David and his men.