UST 1 CHR Chapter 18

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18 Some time later, David and his army defeated the Philistine army. They made the Philistines subject to the Israelites. They captured the Philistine city of Gath and its surrounding villages.

2 David and his army also defeated the Moabite army. The Moabites had to accept David as their ruler. Every year they had to give him the payment that he demanded.

3 David’s army also defeated the army of Hadadezer who ruled the region of Zobah Hamath. He did that when Hadadezer was trying to establish control over the area near the Euphrates River. 4 David’s army captured 1,000 of Hadadezer’s chariots, 1,700 of his soldiers who were chariot drivers, and 20,000 infantry soldiers. They crippled most of the horses that had pulled chariots. But they spared enough of the horses to pull 100 chariots.

5 Then an army of Arameans from the kingdom whose capital was the city of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer’s army. But David’s soldiers killed 22,000 of those Arameans. 6 Then David stationed groups of his soldiers in that kingdom. Those Arameans had to accept David as their ruler. Every year they had to give him the payment that he demanded. Each time David led his soldiers into battle, Yahweh enabled them to win victories over their enemies.

7 Some of Hadadezer’s soldiers had carried shields that had a plating of gold. King David’s soldiers captured those shields and brought them to Jerusalem. 8 They also captured a very large quantity of bronze from Tebah and Kun, two cities in Hadadezer’s kingdom. David’s son Solomon later used it to make the huge bronze basin that people called the sea. He also used it to make pillars and other bronze items for the temple.

9 Tou, the king of the city of Hamath, heard that David’s army had defeated the entire army of King Hadadezer of Zobah. 10 So he sent his son Hadoram to King David to make a peace treaty with him and to congratulate him for defeating Hadadezer’s army. Tou congratulated David because Hadadezer’s army had fought many times against his own army. Hadoram brought David many articles of gold, silver, and bronze as gifts.

11 King David dedicated all those items to Yahweh, just as he had dedicated the silver and gold that his army had captured from the nations they had conquered. They had taken valuable items from the Arameans, Moabites, Ammonites, Philistines, and Amalekites.

12 Later Abishai, whose mother was Zeruiah, led the Israelite army to fight the Edomites in the Valley of Salt. They killed 18,000 Edomite soldiers. 13 Then David stationed groups of his soldiers throughout the region of Edom. The Edomites had to accept him as their ruler. Each time David led his soldiers into battle, Yahweh enabled them to win victories over their enemies.

14 So David ruled over all the Israelite people. As king, he decided the people’s cases, and he judged them fairly. 15 Joab son of Zeruiah was the army commander. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the man who reported to the people everything that David decided that they should do. 16 Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were the priests. Shavsha was the official secretary. 17 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the commander of David’s elite corps of bodyguards. David’s sons were important officials who helped him.

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