[1] And it came about after this that David made an attack on the
Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the
mother-town from the hands of the Philistines. [2] And he overcame the
Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out
on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life.
So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings. [3] And
David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to
make his power seen by the River. [4] And David took from him one thousand,
seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the
leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred
war-carriages. [5] And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of
Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the
Aramaeans. [6] And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the
Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord
made David overcome wherever he went. [7] And David took their gold
body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem. [8]
And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great
store of brass. [9] And when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had
overcome all the army of Hadadezer, [10] He sent his son Hadoram to David,
with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the
fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels
of silver and gold and brass: [11] These King David made holy to the Lord,
together with the silver and gold which he had taken from the nations he
had overcome-- [12] The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon
and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from
Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah. [13] And David got great honour
for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of
Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men. [14] And he put armed forces
in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the
Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome
wherever he went. [15] And David was king over all Israel, judging and
giving right decisions for all his people. [16] And Joab, the son of
Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was
keeper of the records; [17] And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech,
the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe; [18] And
Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites;
and David's sons were priests.
