1 Chronicles 20

The Capture of Rabbah

20:1–3pp—2Sa 11:1; 12:29–31

20In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah^r and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins.^{s 2}David took the crown from the head of their king^a—its weight was found to be a talent^b of gold, and it was set with precious stones—and it was placed on David’s head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city ³and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes.^t David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

War With the Philistines

20:4–8pp—2Sa 21:15–22

⁴In the course of time, war broke out with the Philistines, at Gezer.^u At that time Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaites,^v and the Philistines were subjugated.

⁵In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver’s rod.^w

⁶In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha. ⁷When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.

⁸These were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men.