First Book of Chronicles 20

¹ At the turn of the year, the time when kings go campaigning, Joab led out the troops and ravaged the land of the Ammonites and went to lay siege to Rabbah. David, however, remained in Jerusalem. Joab reduced Rabbah and dismantled it.

² David took the crown from the head of Milcom and found that it weighed a talent of gold; in it was set a precious stone which made an ornament for David’s head. He carried off a great quantity of spoil from the town.

³ He brought away its population and set them to work with saws, iron picks and axes. David treated all the Ammonite towns in the same way. Then David and the whole army returned to Jerusalem.

⁴ After this, war with the Philistines was resumed at Gezer. This was when Sibbecai of Hushah killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim. The Philistines were subdued.

⁵ War with the Philistines broke out again, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath of Gath, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

⁶ There was another battle at Gath, where there was a man of huge stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all. He too was a descendant of Rapha.

⁷ Jonathan, son of David’s brother Shimea, killed him when he defied Israel.

⁸ These men were descended from Rapha of Gath and they fell at the hands of David and his guards.