David’s conquests chapters
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📚Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hands of the Philistines. 2 📚And he defeated Moab; and the Moabites became David’s subjects, and brought tribute. 3 📚And David defeated Hadarezer, king of Zobah at Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates 4 📚And David took a thousand chariots from him, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. David also hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for a hundred chariots. 5 📚And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer, king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand of the Syrians. 6 📚Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David’s subjects, and brought tribute. Thus the LORD preserved David wherever he went. 7 📚And David took the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. 8 📚Likewise David brought a great amount of bronze from Tibhath and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, with which Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the bronze 📖 articles.
9 📚Now when Tou, king of Hamath, heard how David had defeated all the army of Hadarezer king of Zobah, 10 📚he sent his son Hadoram to King David, to ask about his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer and defeated him (for Hadarezer had made war against Tou), and sent with him all kinds of articles of gold and silver and bronze.
11 📚And King David dedicated them to the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations: from Edom and from Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines and from Amalek.
12 📚Moreover Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, killed eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
18:12 Abishai served under David in this battle – 2 Sam 8:13.⚜
13 📚And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. Thus the LORD preserved David wherever he went.
14 📚So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people. 15 📚And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was over the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder; 16 📚and Zadok, the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech, the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was the scribe; 17 📚and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chiefs at the king’s side.