1 Chronicles 20:1 In the spring when kings march out to war, Joab led the efficient army and put an end to[1] the Ammonites’ land. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab struck down Rabbah and demolished it.
1 Chronicles 20:2 Then David took the crown from the head of their king, and it was placed on David’s head. He found that the crown weighed seventy-five pounds of gold, and there was a precious stone in it. In addition, David took away a large quantity of plunder[2] from the city.
1 Chronicles 20:3 He brought out the people who were in it and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. David did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 20:4 After this, a war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.
1 Chronicles 20:5 Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath of Gath. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam.
1 Chronicles 20:6 There was still another battle at Gath where there was a man of extraordinary stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot– twenty-four in all. He, too, was descended from the giant.
1 Chronicles 20:7 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of David’s brother Shimei struck him down.
1 Chronicles 20:8 These were the descendants of the giant in Gath killed by David and his slaves.
[1] שָׁחַת = spoil, devastate, put an end to, corruptly. 1 Chronicles 20:1; 21:12, 15.
1 Chronicles 19:1 Some time later, King Nahash of the Ammonites died, and his son became king in his place.
1 Chronicles 19:2 Then David said, “I’ll show covenant faithfulness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed covenant faithfulness to me.” So, David sent slaves to console him concerning his father. However, when David’s agents arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,
1 Chronicles 19:3 the Ammonite captains said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent men with condolences for you, do you really believe he’s showing respect for your father? Instead, haven’t his slaves come to scout out, overthrow, and spy on the land?”
1 Chronicles 19:4 So Hanun took David’s slaves, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.
1 Chronicles 19:5 It was reported to David about his men, so he sent messengers to meet them since the men were deeply humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back; then return.”
1 Chronicles 19:6 When the Ammonites realized they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent thirty-eight tons of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
1 Chronicles 19:7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and camped before Medeba. The Ammonites also gathered from their cities for the battle.
1 Chronicles 19:8 David heard about this and sent Joab and all the elite army.
1 Chronicles 19:9 The Ammonites marched out and lined up in battle formation at the entrance of the city while the kings who had come were in the field by themselves.
1 Chronicles 19:10 When Joab saw that there was a battle line before him and another behind him, he chose some of Israel’s finest young men and lined up in formation to engage the Arameans.
1 Chronicles 19:11 He placed the rest of the forces under the command of his brother Abishai. They lined up in formation to engage the Ammonites.
1 Chronicles 19:12 “If the Arameans are too strong for me,” Joab said, “then you’ll be my rescue. However, if the Ammonites are too strong for you, I’ll rescue you.
1 Chronicles 19:13 Be strong! Let’s prove ourselves strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahveh’s will be done.”
1 Chronicles 19:14 Joab and the people with him approached the Arameans for battle, and they fled before him.
1 Chronicles 19:15 When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they likewise fled before Joab’s brother Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab went to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 19:16 When the Arameans realized that Israel had defeated them, they sent agents to summon the Arameans who were beyond the Euphrates River. They were led by Shophach, the captain of Hadadezer’s army.
1 Chronicles 19:17 When David was informed of this, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. He then came up to the Arameans and lined up against them. When David lined up to engage them, they fought against him.
1 Chronicles 19:18 But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach, captain of the army.
1 Chronicles 19:19 When Hadadezer’s slaves saw that Israel had defeated them, they made peace with David and slaved for[1] him. After this, the Arameans were not willing to rescue the Ammonites again.
1 Chronicles 17:1 When David had settled into his house, he said to the prophet Nathan, “Notice! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of Yahveh’s covenant is under tent curtains.”
1 Chronicles 17:2 So Nathan told David, “Do all that is on your mind, for God is with you.”
1 Chronicles 17:3 But that night the word of God came to Nathan:
1 Chronicles 17:4 “Go to David my slave and say, ‘This is what Yahveh says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.
1 Chronicles 17:5 From the time I brought Israel out of Egypt until today, I have not dwelt in a house; instead, I have moved from one tent site to another and from one tabernacle location to another.
1 Chronicles 17:6 In all my journeys throughout Israel, have I ever spoken a word to even one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, asking: Why haven’t you built me a house of cedar? ‘
1 Chronicles 17:7 “So now this is what you are to say to my slave David: ‘This is what Yahveh of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut down all your enemies before you. I will make a name for you like that of the greatest on the land.
1 Chronicles 17:9 I will place a place for my people Israel and plant them, so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not add oppression to them as they have done
1 Chronicles 17:10 ever since the day I ordered judges to be over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies. ” ‘Furthermore, I declare to you that Yahveh himself will build a house for you.
1 Chronicles 17:11 When your time comes to be with your fathers, I will raise after you your seed, who is one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17:12 He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne permanently.
1 Chronicles 17:13 I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not remove my covenant faithfulness from him as I removed it from the one who was before you.
1 Chronicles 17:14 I will appoint him over my house and my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established permanently.'”
1 Chronicles 17:15 Nathan reported all these words and this entire vision to David.
1 Chronicles 17:16 Then King David went in, sat in Yahveh’s face, and said, Who am I, Yahveh God, and what is my house that you have brought me this far?
1 Chronicles 17:17 This was a little thing to you, God, for you have spoken about your slave’s house in the distant future. You regard me as a man of distinction, Yahveh God.
1 Chronicles 17:18 What more can David add to you for rewarding your slave? You know your slave.
1 Chronicles 17:19 Yahveh, you have done this whole great thing, making known all these great promises for the sake of your slave and according to your will.
1 Chronicles 17:20 Yahveh, there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as all we have heard confirms.
1 Chronicles 17:21 And who is like your people Israel? God, you came to one nation on the land to redeem a people for yourself, to place a name for yourself through great and awesome works by driving out nations before your people you redeemed from Egypt.
1 Chronicles 17:22 You made your people Israel your own permanent people, and you, Yahveh, have become their God.
1 Chronicles 17:23 Now, Yahveh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your slave and his house be confirmed permanently, and do as you have promised.
1 Chronicles 17:24 Let your name be confirmed and magnified permanently in the saying, “Yahveh of Armies, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.” May the house of your slave David be established before you.
1 Chronicles 17:25 Since you, my God, have revealed to your slave that you will build him a house, your servant has found courage to pray in your face.
1 Chronicles 17:26 Yahveh, you indeed are God, and you have promised this good thing to your slave.
1 Chronicles 17:27 So now, you have been pleased to endorse your slave’s house that it may continue before you permanently. For you, Yahveh, have endorsed it, and it is endorsed permanently.
1 Chronicles 14:1 King Hiram of Tyre sent agents[1] to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters to build a house for him.
1 Chronicles 14:2 Then David knew that Yahveh had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom had been exalted for the sake of his people Israel.
1 Chronicles 14:3 David took more wives in Jerusalem, and he became the father of more sons and daughters.
1 Chronicles 14:4 These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
1 Chronicles 14:5 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,
1 Chronicles 14:6 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
1 Chronicles 14:7 Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
1 Chronicles 14:8 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they all went in search of David; when David heard of this, he went out to face them.
1 Chronicles 14:9 Now the Philistines had come and raided in the Valley of Rephaim,
1 Chronicles 14:10 so David inquired of God, “Should I attack the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” Yahveh replied, “Attack, and I will hand them over to you.”
1 Chronicles 14:11 So the Israelites went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck down the Philistines there. Then David said, “Like a bursting flood, God has used me to burst out against my enemies.” Therefore, they named that place Yahveh Bursts Out.
1 Chronicles 14:12 The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
1 Chronicles 14:13 Once again, the Philistines added a raid to[2] the valley.
1 Chronicles 14:14 So David again inquired of God, and God answered him, “Do not pursue them directly. Circle around them and attack them opposite the balsam trees.
1 Chronicles 14:15 When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle, for God will have gone out before of you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”
1 Chronicles 14:16 So David did as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.
1 Chronicles 14:17 Then David’s fame spread throughout the lands, and Yahveh caused all the nations to be terrified of him.
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