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| | 1Ch 20:1 | Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it.
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| | 1Ch 20:2 | David took the crown of their king from his head, and he found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
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| | 1Ch 20:3 | He brought out the people who were in it, and cut them with saws and with sharp instruments and with axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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| | 1Ch 20:4 | Now it came about after this, that war broke out at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the giants, and they were subdued.
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| | 1Ch 20:5 | And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
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| | 1Ch 20:6 | Again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; and he also was descended from the giants.
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| | 1Ch 20:7 | When he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.
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| | 1Ch 20:8 | These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
