Chronicles of the Past Dynasties_Chapter 20

After a year, when the kings went to war, Joab led his army to destroy the land of the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. David still resides in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and overthrew the city.

David took away the golden crown worn by the king of the children of Ammon, which weighed one talent of gold and was adorned with precious stones. And they put this crown on David’s head. David took a lot of wealth from the city,

Pull out the people of the city and put them under saws, iron rakes, or iron axes (or force them to work with saws, iron tools for threshing grain, or iron axes), as David did to the residents of all the cities of Ammon. Afterwards, David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

Later, the Israelites fought against the Philistines in Gezer. Sibicai the Hushathite killed one of the sons of the great man, Sippai, and the Philistines were subdued.

And there was war with the Philistines again. Elhanan, the son of Jair, killed LaHami, the brother of Goliath the Gittite. This person’s gun barrel is as thick as a weaving machine shaft.

We are at war again in Gath. There was a tall man with six fingers and twenty-four fingers, who was also the son of a great man.

This man cursed at the Israelites, and Jonathan son of Shimiah, David’s brother, killed him.

These three were the sons of the great man of Gath, all of whom died under the hands of David and his servants.