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brought back the people who had lived in it, and put them to conscripted labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. David did this to every Ammonite city, and then David and his entire army[a] returned to Jerusalem.

Fighting Philistine Giants(A)

Afterwards, war broke out against the Philistines at Gezer, where Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim,[b] defeating the Philistines. There was also another battle against the Philistines, when Jair’s son Elhanan killed Lahmi the Gittite, Goliath’s brother, whose spear was as big as[c] a weaver’s beam.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 20:3 Lit. people
  2. 1 Chronicles 20:4 Or the giants
  3. 1 Chronicles 20:5 Lit. was like