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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Chronicles 20</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_chronicles/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//1_chronicles/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/1_chronicles/">1 Chronicles</a> > 1 Chronicles 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_chronicles/19.htm" title="1 Chronicles 19">◄</a> 1 Chronicles 20 <a href="../1_chronicles/21.htm" title="1 Chronicles 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/1_chronicles/20.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_chronicles/20.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_chronicles/20.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_chronicles/20.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_chronicles/20.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_chronicles/20.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/1_chronicles/20.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Capture of Rabbah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/12.htm#26">2 Samuel 12:26–31</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the spring,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it. <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then David took the crown from the head of their king.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> It was found to weigh a talent of gold<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>David brought out the people who were there and put them to work<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem. <A name="5"></a><p class="hdg">Battles against the Philistines<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/21.htm#15">2 Samuel 21:15–22</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> a descendant of the Rephaim,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> and the Philistines were subdued. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And there was still another battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s brother Shimei killed him. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Literally <i>At the turn of the year</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>from the head of Milcom</i><span class="thin"> </span>. Milcom, also called Molech, was god of the Ammonites; see <a href="../leviticus/18.htm#21">Leviticus 18:21</a> and <a href="../1_kings/11.htm#7">1 Kings 11:7</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>A talent</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 75.4 pounds or 34.2 kilograms of gold.<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>cut them</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <i>Sippai</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Saph</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../2_samuel/21.htm#18">2 Samuel 21:18</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> Or <i>the giants</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see also <i>descendants of Rapha</i><span class="thin"> </span> in verses 6 and 8.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> Or <i>Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../2_samuel/21.htm#19">2 Samuel 21:19</a>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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