1 În anul următor, pe vremea cînd porneau împăraţii la război, Ioab a pornit, în fruntea unei puternice oştiri, să pustiască ţara fiilor lui Amon şi să împresoare Raba. Dar David a rămas la Ierusalim. Ioab a bătut Raba şi a nimicit -o.

2 David a luat cununa de pe capul împăratului ei, şi a găsit -o în greutate de un talant de aur: era împodobită cu petre scumpe. Au pus -o pe capul lui David, care a luat o mare pradă din cetate.

3 A scos afară pe locuitori, şi i -a tăiat în bucăţi cu ferestraie, cu securi, şi cu topoare; tot aşa a făcut tuturor cetăţilor fiilor lui Amon. David s'a întors la Ierusalim cu tot poporul.

4 După aceea, a avut loc o bătălie la Ghezer cu Filistenii. Atunci Sibecai, Huşatitul, a ucis pe Sipai, unul din copiii lui Rafa. Şi Filistenii au fost smeriţi.

5 A mai fost o bătălie cu Filistenii. Şi Elhanan, fiul lui Iair, a ucis pe fratele lui Goliat, Lahmi din Gat, care avea o suliţă al cărei mîner era ca un sul de ţesut.

6 A mai fost o bătălie la Gat. Acolo a fost un om de statură înaltă, care avea şase degete la fiecare mînă şi la fiecare picior, douăzeci şi patru de toate, şi care se trăgea şi el din Rafa.

7 El a batjocorit pe Israel; şi Ionatan, fiul lui Şimea, fratele lui David, l -a ucis.

8 Oamenii aceştia erau dintre copiii lui Rafa la Gat. Ei au perit ucişi de mîna lui David şi de mîna slujitorilor lui.

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.