1 factum est autem post anni circulum
eo tempore quo solent reges ad bella procedere
congregavit Ioab exercitum et robur militiae
et vastavit terram filiorum Ammon
perrexitque et obsedit Rabba
porro David manebat in Hierusalem
quando Ioab percussit Rabba et destruxit eam
2 tulit autem David coronam Melchom de capite eius
et invenit in ea auri pondo talentum et pretiosissimas gemmas
fecitque sibi inde diadema
manubias quoque urbis plurimas tulit
3 populum autem qui erat in ea eduxit
et fecit super eos tribulas et trahas et ferrata carpenta transire
ita ut dissicarentur et contererentur
sic fecit David cunctis urbibus filiorum Ammon
et reversus est cum omni populo suo in Hierusalem
4 post haec initum est bellum in Gazer adversus Philistheos
in quo percussit Sobbochai Usathites Saphai de genere Raphaim
et humiliavit eos
5 aliud quoque bellum gestum est adversum Philistheos
in quo percussit Adeodatus filius Saltus Lehemites fratrem Goliath Getthei
cuius hastae lignum erat quasi liciatorium texentium
6 sed et aliud bellum accidit in Geth
in quo fuit homo longissimus
habens digitos senos id est simul viginti quattuor
qui et ipse de Rapha fuerat stirpe generatus
7 hic blasphemavit Israhel
et percussit eum Ionathan filius Sammaa fratris David
hii sunt filii Rapha in Geth
qui ceciderunt in manu David et servorum eius
1 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle , Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it. 2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David’s head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city. 3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
4 ¶ And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. 5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver’s beam. 6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand , and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant. 7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him. 8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.