1 Chronicles 20201 ChroniclesDavid's reignArabic Simplified Text

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1. 1ARSTIn that region, kings usually went with their armies to fight their enemies in the springtime. But the following year, David did not do that. Instead, he stayed in Jerusalem and sent his commander Joab to lead the army. Joab and his troops ruined the land of the Ammon people group. Then they went to Rabbah, the capital city, and surrounded it. Joab and his troops killed the army in the city of Rabbah and demolished the city.BSBBSB: In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
2. 2ARSTDavid then came to Rabbah, took the crown from the head of the king of Rabbah and put it on his own head. It weighed thirty- three kilograms and was gold. It had a valuable stone in it. They also took many other valuable things from the city.BSBBSB: Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
3. 3ARSTThen they brought the people out of the city and forced them to work for their army, using saws and iron picks and axes. David’ s soldiers did this in all the cities of the Ammon people group. Then David and all of his army returned to Jerusalem.BSBBSB: David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
4. 4ARSTSome time later, David’ s army fought with the army of Philistia, at the city of Gezer. During the battle Sibbekai, from the Hushah clan, killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rapha giants. So David’ s army defeated the army of Philistia.BSBBSB: Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.
5. 5ARSTIn another battle against the soldiers of Philistia, Elhanan son of Jair, killed Lahmi, the younger brother of the giant Goliath from the city of Gath, who had a spear which was as thick as a weaver’ s rod.BSBBSB: Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
6. 6ARSTThere was another battle near Gath. A huge man was there who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. He was also a descendant of the Rapha giants.BSBBSB: And there was also a battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
7. 7ARSTWhen he insulted the soldiers of Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea killed him. Shimea was one of David’ s older brothers.BSBBSB: and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s brother Shimei killed him.
8. 8ARSTThose were some of the descendants of the Rapha giants who had lived in Gath. David and his soldiers killed them.BSBBSB: So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

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