The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Chronicles 20
1 At the time of the return of the year, at
the time whenkings go out,Joabledoutthe
army and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged
Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
2 David took the crown oftheir king from
off his head, and found it to weigh a talent
of gold,† and there were precious stones
in it. It was set on David’s head, and he
brought very much plunder out of the city.
3 He brought out the people who were
in it, and had them cut with saws, with
iron picks, and with axes. David did so
to all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Then David and all the people returned to
Jerusalem.
4 After this, war arose at Gezer with the
Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite
killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and
they were subdued.
5 Again there was war with the
Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair
killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the
Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like
a weaver’s beam.
6 There was again war at Gath, where
there was a man of great stature, who had
twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each
hand and six on each foot; and he also was
born to the giant.
7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the
son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.
8 These were born to the giant in Gath;
and they fell by the hand of David and by
the hand of his servants.