13 And David became famous(A) after he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites[a] in the Valley of Salt.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 8:13 A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 1 Chron. 18:12); most Hebrew manuscripts Aram (that is, Arameans)

13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

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