1 At the return of the year, the season when kings march out, Joab led the fighting force and laid waste the land of the children of Ammon; then he went and laid siege to Rabbah, while David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and tore it down.
2 David took their king's crown from his head; he found it weighed a talent of gold and had a precious stone in it, and it was set on David's head. He brought a very large amount of plunder out of the city.
3 He brought out the people who were there and cut them with saws, with iron threshing sledges, and with saws. David treated all the cities of the children of Ammon this way. Then David and all the army went back to Jerusalem.
4 Later on, war arose with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the offspring of the Rephaim, and they were humbled.
5 There was fighting with the Philistines once more, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, Goliath the Gittite's brother, whose spear shaft was like a weaver's beam.
6 And there was fighting yet again at Gath, where there was a giant of a man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all; he too had been born to the Rapha.
7 He defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.
8 These had been born to the Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his servants.