1 Chronicles 20
1 At the turn of the year, when kings go out to war, Joab led the army’s forces and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came and besieged Rabbah, while David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and destroyed it.
2 David took the crown from their king’s head and found that it weighed a talent of gold and had a precious stone in it. It was placed on David’s head. He took a very great amount of plunder from the city.
3 He also brought out the people who were in it and put them to the saw, the iron picks, and the saws. This is what David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
4 After this, war broke out at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of Rapha, and they were subdued.
5 There was another war with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear shaft was like a weaver’s beam.
6 There was another war at Gath. A man of great stature was there, and he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all. He too had been born to Rapha.
7 He defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimea, David’s brother, struck him down.
8 These were born to Rapha at Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his servants.
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