1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, Joab went out at the head of the armed forces and made waste all the land of the Ammonites and put his men in position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem. And Joab took Rabbah and made it waste.

2 And David took the crown of Milcom from off his head; its weight was a talent of gold and it had stones of great price in it; and it was put on David's head, and he took a great store of goods from the town.

3 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

4 Now after this there was war with the Philistines at Gezer; then Sibbecai the Hushathite put to death Sippai, one of the offspring of the Rephaim; and they were overcome.

5 And again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan, the son of Jair, put to death Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.

6 And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.

7 And when he put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, put him to death.

8 These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants.

1 Na primavera seguinte, na época em que os reis saem à guerra, Joabe conduziu o seu exército até a terra dos amonitas e a arrasou. Enquanto Davi ainda estava em Jerusalém, Joabe cercou Rabá, a capital, atacou-a e deixou-a em ruínas.

2 Davi tirou a coroa da cabeça de Milcon, uma coroa de ouro de trinta e cinco quilos, ornamentada com pedras preciosas. E ela foi colocada na cabeça de Davi. Ele levou uma grande quantidade de bens da cidade,

3 e levou também os seus habitantes, designando-lhes trabalhos com serras, picaretas de ferro e machados. Davi fez assim com todas as cidades amonitas. Depois voltou com todo seu exército para Jerusalém.

4 E houve depois disso uma guerra com os filisteus, em Gezer. Naquela época, Sibecai, de Husate, matou Sipai, um dos descendentes dos refains, e os filisteus foram subjugados.

5 Noutra batalha contra os filisteus, Elanã, filho de Jair, matou Lami, irmão de Golias, de Gate, que possuía uma lança cuja haste parecia uma lançadeira de tecelão.

6 Noutra batalha, em Gate, havia um homem de grande estatura e que tinha seis dedos em cada mão e seis dedos em cada pé; vinte e quatro dedos ao todo. Ele também era descendente de Rafa,

7 e ele desafiou Israel, mas Jônatas, filho de Siméia, irmão de Davi, o matou.

8 Esses eram descendentes de Rafa, em Gate, e foram mortos por Davi e seus soldados.