RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

DIVRE HAYAMIM ALEF - FIRST CHRONICLES
12 Moreover Avishai the son of Tzeruyah killed of the
Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.
13 And he put watch-posts in Edom; and all the Edomites
became Dawid’s avadim. So vuvh preserved Dawid
wherever he went.
14 So Dawid reigned over kol Yisrael, 4235 and executed
judgment and mishpat among all his people.
15 And Yoav the son Tzeruyah was over the army; and
Yahushaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
16 And Tzadok the son of Achituv, and Avimelech the
son of Aviathar, were the Kohanim; and Shavsha was
Sopher;
17 And Benyahu the son of Yahuyadah was over the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of Dawid
were heads all around the melech.
Now it came to pass after this, that Nachash the
melech of the children of Ammon died, and his son
reigned in his place.
2 And Dawid said, I will show chesed to Hanun the son
of Nachash, because his abba showed chesed to me. And
Dawid sent messengers to comfort him concerning his
abba. And the avadim of Dawid came to Hanun in the
land of the children of Ammon to comfort him.
3 And the heads of the children of Ammon said to Hunan;
Is Dawid honoring your abba in your eyes because he has
sent comforters to you? Have not his avadim come here to
spy out the land?
4 So Hanun took Dawid’s avadim, and shaved them, and
cut off their garments in the midst at their buttocks, and
sent them away.
5 Then there went certain men, who told Dawid how the
men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men
were greatly ashamed. And the melech said, Stay at
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6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had
made themselves a bad stench to Dawid, Hanun and the
children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to
hire them mirkavot and horsemen out of Mesopotamia,
and out of Aram-Maachah, and out of Tzovah.
7 So they hired thirty two thousand mirkavot, and the
melech of Maachah and his people; who came and
camped before Medeva. And the children of Ammon
gathered themselves together from their cities, and came
to battle.
8 And when Dawid heard of it, he sent Yoav, and all the
army of the mighty men.
9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put on the
battle array before the gate of the city: and the melechim
that had come were by themselves in the field.
10 Now when Yoav saw that the battle was set against
him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice men
of Yisrael, and put them in battle array against the
Arameans.
11 And the rest of the people he delivered to the hand of
Avishai his brother, and they set themselves in battle
array against the children of Ammon.
12 And he said, If the Arameans are too strong for me,
then you shall help me: but if the children of Ammon are
too strong for you, then I will help you.
13 Be of tov courage, and let us behave ourselves
valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our Elohim:
and let vuvh do that what is tov in His sight.
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14 So Yoav and the people that were with him drew near
before the Arameans to the battle; and they fled before
him.
15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the
Arameans were fled, they likewise fled before Avishai his
brother, and entered into the city. Then Yoav came to
Yahrushalayim.
16 And when the Arameans saw that they were being
killed before Yisrael, they sent messengers, and brought
the Arameans that were beyond the river: and Shophach
the commander of the army of Hadadezer went before
them.
17 And it was told to Dawid; and he gathered kol Yisrael,
and passed over Yarden, and came upon them, and set up
in battle array against them. So when Dawid had put the
battle in array against the Arameans, they fought with
him.
18 But the Arameans fled before Yisrael; and Dawid
killed of the Arameans seven thousand men who fought
in mirkavot, and forty thousand footmen, and killed
Shophach the commander of the army.
19 And when the avadim of Hadadezer saw that they
were killed by Yisrael, they made shalom with Dawid,
and became his avadim: neither would the Arameans help
the children of Ammon any more.
20 And it came to pass, at the turn of the year, at the
time that melechim go out to battle, Yoav led the power
of the army, and wasted the country of the children of
Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But Dawid
tarried at Yahrushalayim. And Yoav killed Rabbah, and
destroyed it.
2 And Dawid took the keter of their melech from off his
chief, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there
were precious stones in it; and it was set upon Dawid’s
chief: and he brought also exceedingly much plunder out
of the city.
3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and put
them to work with saws, and with harrows of iron, and
with axes. This is how Dawid dealt with all the cities of
the children of Ammon. And Dawid and all the people
returned to Yahrushalayim.
4 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at
Gezer with the Plishtim; at which time Sibbechai the
Hushathite killed Sippai, that was one of the children of
the giant: and they were subdued.
5 And there was war again with the Plishtim; and
Elchanan the son of Yair killed Lahmi the brother of
Golyat the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver’s
beam.
6 And yet again there was war at Gat, where was a man of
great size, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six
on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the
son of the giant.
7 But when he defied Yisrael, Yonathan the son of
Shimea Dawid’s brother killed him.
8 These were born to the giant in Gat; and they fell by the
hand of Dawid, and by the hand of his avadim.
And s.a.tan stood up against Yisrael, and provoked
Dawid to number Yisrael. 4237
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2 And Dawid said to Yoav and to the rulers of the people,
Go, number Yisrael from Be-er-Sheva even to Dan; and