1 Depois disso, Davi derrotou os filisteus e os subjugou, e tirou do controle deles Metegue-Amá.
2 Davi derrotou também os moabitas. Ele os fez deitarem-se no chão e mandou que os medissem com uma corda; os moabitas que ficavam dentro das duas primeiras medidas da corda foram mortos, mas os que ficavam dentro da terceira foram poupados. Assim, os moabitas ficaram sujeitos a Davi, pagando-lhe impostos.
3 Além disso, Davi derrotou Hadadezer, filho de Reobe, rei de Zobá, quando Hadadezer tentava recuperar o controle na região do rio Eufrates.
4 Davi se apossou de mil dos seus carros de guerra, sete mil cavaleiros e vinte mil soldados de infantaria. Ainda levou cem cavalos de carros de guerra, e aleijou todos o outros.
5 Quando os arameus de Damasco vieram ajudar Hadadezer, rei de Zobá, Davi matou vinte e dois mil deles.
6 Em seguida estabeleceu guarnições militares no reino dos arameus de Damasco, sujeitando-os a lhe pagarem impostos. E o Senhor dava vitórias a Davi aonde quer que ele fosse.
7 Davi também levou para Jerusalém os escudos de ouro usados pelos oficiais de Hadadezer.
8 De Tebá e Berotai, cidades que pertenciam a Hadadezer, o rei Davi levou grande quantidade de bronze.
9 Quando Toú, rei de Hamate, soube que Davi tinha derrotado todo o exército de Hadadezer,
10 enviou seu filho Jorão ao rei Davi para saudá-lo e parabenizá-lo por sua vitória na batalha contra Hadadezer, que tinha estado em guerra com Toú. E, com Jorão, mandou todo tipo de utensílios de prata, de ouro e de bronze.
11 O rei Davi consagrou esses utensílios ao Senhor, como fizera com a prata e com o ouro tomados de todas as nações que havia subjugado:
12 Edom e Moabe, os amonitas e os filisteus, e Amaleque. Também consagrou os bens tomados de Hadadezer, filho de Reobe, rei de Zobá.
13 Davi ficou ainda mais famoso ao retornar da batalha em que matou dezoito mil edomitas no vale do Sal.
14 Ele estabeleceu guarnições militares por todo o território de Edom, sujeitando todos os edomitas. O Senhor dava vitórias a Davi aonde quer que ele fosse.
15 Davi reinou sobre todo o Israel, administrando o direito e a justiça a todo o seu povo.
16 Joabe, filho de Zeruia, era comandante do exército; Josafá, filho de Ailude, era o arquivista real;
17 Zadoque, filho de Aitube, e Aimeleque, filho de Abiatar, eram sacerdotes; Seraías era secretário;
18 Benaia, filho de Joiada, comandava os queretitas e os peletitas; e os filhos de Davi eram sacerdotes.
1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.
2 And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.
3 And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.
4 And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.
5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.
6 And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
7 And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.
8 And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.
9 And when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer,
10 He sent his son Hadoram to David, with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels of silver and gold and brass:
11 These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he had taken from the nations he had overcome--
12 The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
13 And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.
14 And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
15 And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
16 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records;
17 And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
18 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.