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1 Chronicles 20

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In the spring David's army takes Rabbah, and David wears the Ammonite crown. This book skips what happened with Bathsheba. Then David's men kill three giants from Gath, including Goliath's brother and a man with six fingers on each hand.

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The Capture of Rabbah// 2 Samuel 12:26–31

1In 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.

  • 1CH 20:1[NOTE]LEFT OUT. 2 Samuel 11 and 12 tell what David did with Bathsheba while his army was at Rabbah. Chronicles skips it. See the Big Question pages Chronicles vs Samuel and Kings.

2Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh 75 pounds 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.

  • 1CH 20:2[NOTE]THEIR KING. The Hebrew is malkam. The Greek reads Milcom, the god of the Ammonites, 1 Kings 11:5, so the crown may have come off an idol's statue.

3David 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.

Battles against the Philistines// 2 Samuel 21:15–22

4Some 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.

  • 1CH 20:4[DEMONIC]Sippai, Lahmi the brother of Goliath, and a giant with six fingers on each hand, killed by David's men

5Once 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.

  • 1CH 20:5[TEXT]GOLIATH'S BROTHER. This verse says Elhanan killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath. 2 Samuel 21:19 says Elhanan killed Goliath. This Bible adds the brother of there too, from this verse. See Who Killed Goliath? in 1 Samuel.

6And 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, 7and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s brother Shimei killed him.

8So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

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