1 Chronicles 20

CHAPTER 20

War with Philistine Giants

^1aNow it happened ¹in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the force of the military and brought the land of the sons of Ammon to ruin, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And ^bJoab struck Rabbah and ²tore it down.

^2aThen David took the crown of ¹their king from his head; and he found it to weigh a ²talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in a very great amount.

³He also brought out the people who were in it ^aand ¹made them work with saws and with sharp iron instruments and with axes. And thus David used to do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

^4aNow it happened afterwards, that war ¹broke out at ²Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, one among those born of the ³giants, and they were subdued.

⁵And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of ^aJair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the ^bshaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

⁶Then there was war at Gath again, and there was a man of great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; and he also had been born to the giants.

⁷And he ¹reproached Israel, so Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, struck him down.

⁸These were born to the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.