1 Chronicles · 8 verses
1 Chronicles 20
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At Gath, arithmetic briefly takes command of the battlefield: six fingers per hand, six toes per foot, and a neat total of twenty-four.
A crown with considerable weightvv. 1–3
In spring, when kings are expected out with the armies, Joab leads the campaign against Ammon while David stays in Jerusalem. Joab takes Rabbah; David then takes its king’s crown, a piece of headwear weighing a talent of gold and glittering with precious stones. The people are put to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and the army returns to Jerusalem.
The Philistine measurementsvv. 4–8
The fighting turns to the Philistines at Gezer, where Sibbecai kills Sippai. Elhanan kills Lahmi, whose spear-shaft is compared with a weaver’s beam. Then Gath supplies a man of great stature with twenty-four digits, who taunts Israel until Jonathan, David’s nephew, kills him. The chapter closes with the descendants of Rapha fallen at the hands of David and his servants—a very compact ending for such an unusually well-counted man.
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1 Chr 20:1In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
1 Chr 20:2Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
1 Chr 20:3David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chr 20:4Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.
1 Chr 20:5Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
1 Chr 20:6And there was also a battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
1 Chr 20:7and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s brother Shimei killed him.
1 Chr 20:8So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.
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- 52 Samuel 21:19Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
- 12 Samuel 11:1In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
- 12 Samuel 12:26–31Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.
- 42 Samuel 21:18–22Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, a descendant of Rapha.
- 1Jeremiah 49:2–3Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
- 1Amos 1:14So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.
- 1Deuteronomy 3:11(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
- 71 Samuel 16:9Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
- 71 Chronicles 2:13Jesse was the father of Eliab his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third,
- 8Romans 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- 12 Samuel 11:16–25So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.
- 12 Kings 13:20And Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.
- 11 Kings 20:26In the spring, Ben-hadad mobilized the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
- 1Isaiah 54:16Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
- 1Ezekiel 21:20Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
- 11 Kings 20:22Afterward, the prophet approached the king of Israel and said, “Go and strengthen your position, and take note what you must do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against you.”
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