1 Chronicles 18:1-17
18 And it came about afterward that David proceeded to strike down the Phi·lisʹtines+ and subdue them and take Gath+ and its dependent towns* out of the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines.
2 Then he struck Moʹab+ down, and the Moʹab·ites came to be David’s servants bearing tribute.*+
3 And David went on to strike down Had·ad·eʹzer+ the king of Zoʹbah+ at Haʹmath+ as he was going his way to set up his control* at the river Eu·phraʹtes.+
4 Further, David captured from him a thousand chariots and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand men on foot.+ Then David hamstrung+ all the chariot horses,+ but he let a hundred chariot horses* of them remain.
5 When Syria* of Damascus came to help Had·ad·eʹzer the king of Zoʹbah,+ David went striking down among the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
6 After that David put [garrisons]* in Syria of Damascus,+ and the Syrians came to be David’s servants bearing tribute.+ And Jehovah kept giving salvation to David wherever he went.+
7 Moreover, David took the circular shields+ of gold that happened to be on the servants of Had·ad·eʹzer and brought them to Jerusalem.+
8 And from Tibʹhath+ and Cun, cities of Had·ad·eʹzer, David took very much copper. With it Solʹo·mon made the copper sea+ and the pillars+ and the copper utensils.+
9 When Toʹu* the king of Haʹmath+ heard that David had struck down all the military force of Had·ad·eʹzer+ the king of Zoʹbah,
10 he immediately sent Ha·doʹram+ his son to King David to ask him about his welfare and congratulate* him over the fact that he had fought against Had·ad·eʹzer so that he struck him down, (for Had·ad·eʹzer had become trained in warfare against Toʹu,*) and [there were with him] all sorts of articles of gold and silver+ and copper.
11 These also King David sanctified+ to Jehovah together with the silver and the gold that he had carried off from all the nations,+ from Eʹdom and from Moʹab+ and from the sons of Amʹmon+ and from the Phi·lisʹtines+ and from Amʹa·lek.+
12 As for A·bishʹai+ the son of Ze·ruʹiah,+ he struck down the Eʹdom·ites in the Valley of Salt,+ eighteen thousand.
13 So he put garrisons in Eʹdom, and all the Eʹdom·ites came to be David’s servants.+ And Jehovah kept saving David wherever he went.+
14 And David continued to reign over all Israel,+ and he was continually rendering judicial decision and righteousness for all his people.+
15 And Joʹab the son of Ze·ruʹiah was over the army,+ and Je·hoshʹa·phat+ the son of A·hiʹlud was recorder.*
16 And Zaʹdok+ the son of A·hiʹtub and A·himʹe·lech*+ the son of A·biʹa·thar were priests, and Shavʹsha+ was secretary.
17 And Be·naiʹah+ the son of Je·hoiʹa·da+ was over the Cherʹe·thites+ and the Pelʹe·thites;+ and the sons of David were the first in position at the side of the king.+
Footnotes
^ Lit., “and her daughters.”
^ Lit., “gift.”
^ Lit., “his hand.”
^ Possibly, “teams.”
^ Or, “the Syrians.”
^ “Tou,” MVg; in 2Sa 8:9, 10, “Toi.”
^ Lit., “bless.”
^ Lit., “become a man of wars of Tou.”
^ Lit., “remembrancer.”
