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דברי הימים א׳ כI Chronicles 20

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א

At the turn of the year, the season when kings go out [to battle], Joab led out the army force and devastated the land of Ammon, and then besieged Rabbah, while David remained in Jerusalem; Joab reduced Rabbah and left it in ruins.

ב

David took the crown from the head of their king; he found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones. It was placed on David’s head. He also carried off a vast amount of booty from the city.

ג

He led out the people who lived there and he hacked them with saws and iron threshing boards and axes;; cf. 2 Sam. 12.31 magzeroth, “axes.” David did thus to all the towns of Ammon. Then David and all the troops returned to Jerusalem.

ד

After this, fighting broke out with the Philistines at Gezer; that was when Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and they were humbled.

ה

Again there was fighting with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite; his spear had a shaft like a weaver’s beam.

ו

Once again there was fighting at Gath. There was a giant of a man who had twenty-four fingers [and toes], six [on each hand] and six [on each foot]; he too was descended from the Raphah.

ז

When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of David’s brother Shimea killed him.

ח

These were descended from the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hands of David and his men.