1 Chronicles 20
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- 1In the spring, when kings typically march out to war, Joab led the full strength of the army into battle. They ravaged the land of the Ammonites and laid siege to Rabbah. David, however, stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and destroyed it.
- 2David took the crown from the head of the Ammonite king and found that it weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones. The crown was placed on David's head, and he carried off a massive amount of plunder from the city.
- 3He brought out the people who were in the city and cut them with saws, iron harrows, and axes. David did this to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
- 4Sometime later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. During that battle, Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Sippai, who was one of the children of the giant, and the Philistines were defeated.
- 5In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear had a shaft as thick as a weaver's beam.
- 6Yet another battle took place at Gath, where there was an enormous man who had twenty-four fingers and toes — six on each hand and six on each foot. He too was the son of the giant.
- 7When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.
- 8These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and his servants.