¹And it came to pass in the new year, at the time when kings go out, that Joab led the forces of the army, and he ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon, and he went to besiege Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it. ²And David took their king's crown from his head, and he found it to have a weight of a talent of gold, and in it was a precious gemstone, and it was placed on David's head. He also brought a great deal of the city's spoil, ³and he brought out the people who were in it, and he assigned them to work with the saw and with iron threshing boards and with axes. And David did likewise to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. ⁴And it came to pass after this, that a war arose in Gezer with the Philistines, when Sibbechai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the offspring of the Rephaim. And they were subdued. ⁵Then there was another war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. ⁶And there was another war in Gath, and there was a man of great stature whose fingers and toes were six apiece – twenty-four in all – and he too was born to Rapha. ⁷And when he showed contempt for Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimah, David's brother, struck him down. ⁸These were born to Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hand of David and at the hand of his servants.