7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them
to Jerusalem.
8 Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass,
wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
9 Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of
Zobah;
10 He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him,
because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;)
and with himall manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
11 Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought
from all thesenations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from
the Philistines, and from Amalek.
12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen
thousand.
13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD
preserved David whithersoever he went.
14 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.
15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah wasover the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, werethe priests; and
Shavsha was scribe;
17 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada wasover the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons
of David werechief about the king.
1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his
son reigned in his stead.
2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed
kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the
servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour
thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to
search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the
midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them:
for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be
grown, and thenreturn.
6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun
and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen
out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.
7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who
came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from
their cities, and came to battle.
8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city:
and the kings that were come wereby themselves in the field.
10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of
all the choice of Israel, and put themin array against the Syrians.
11 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set
themselvesin array against the children of Ammon.
12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children

of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities
of our God: and let the LORD do that which isgood in his sight.
14 So Joab and the people that werewith him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and
they fled before him.
15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before
Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
16 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent
messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that werebeyond the river: and Shophach the captain of
the host of Hadarezer wentbefore them.
17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon
them, and set the battlein array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against
the Syrians, they fought with him.
18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which
fought inchariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they
made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of
Ammon any more.
1 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle,
Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and
came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and
destroyed it.
2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of
gold, and there wereprecious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also
exceeding much spoil out of the city.
3 And he brought out the people that werein it, and cut themwith saws, and with harrows of
iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David
and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
4 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which
time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that wasof the children of the giant: and they were
subdued.
5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the
brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff waslike a weaver's beam.
6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of greatstature, whose fingers and
toes werefour and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the
giant.
7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of
his servants.
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even
to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but,
my lord the king, arethey not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing?
why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went
throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they ofIsrael were a
thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah wasfour hundred

threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to
Joab.
7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I
beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of
them, that I may do itunto thee.
11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the
sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the
pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel.
Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for
very great arehis mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD
beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay
now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the
heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the
elders of Israel, who wereclothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
17 And David said unto God, Is itnot I thatcommanded the people to be numbered? even I it is
that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as forthese sheep, what have they done? let thine
hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that
they should be plagued.
18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set
up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now
Ornan was threshing wheat.
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor,
and bowed himself to David with hisface to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of thisthreshingfloor, that I may build an altar
therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed
from the people.
23 And Ornan said unto David, Take itto thee, and let my lord the king do that which isgood in
his eyes: lo, I give theethe oxen alsofor burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for
wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not
take thatwhich isthine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of
burnt offering.
27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan
the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.