CHAPTER 20

¹And it happened at the turn of the year, at the time when the kings sally forth, that Joab led the army force and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. And he came and besieged Rabbah. And David was sitting in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it. ²And David took the crown of their king from his head and found it weighed a talent of gold, and on it were precious stones, and it was set on David’s head. And the booty of the city he brought out in great abundance. ³And the people who were in it he brought out and set them to work with saw and iron threshing boards and axes. And thus did David do to all the Ammonite towns. And David, and all the troops with him, returned to Jerusalem.

⁴And it happened thereafter that there was fighting at Gezer with the Philistines. Then did Sibbecai the Hushathite strike down Sippai, who was of the offspring of titans, and they were brought low. ⁵And there was once more fighting with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite struck down Goliath the Gittite, and the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam. ⁶And once more there was fighting at Gath. And there was a man of huge measure, who had six fingers on each hand and foot, twenty-four in all, and he, too, sprung from the titan. ⁷And he insulted Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimea, David’s kinsman, struck him down. ⁸These sprung from the titan, and they fell at the hand of David and at the hand of his servants.