2 Samuel 8:2-18 And he smites Moab, and measures them with a line, causing them to lie down on the earth, and he measures two lines to put to death, and the fulness of the line to keep alive, and the Moabites are to David for servants, bearers of a present.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ² And he smites Moab, and measures them with a line, causing them to lie down on the earth, and he measures two lines to put to death, and the fulness of the line to keep alive, and the Moabites are to David for servants, bearers of a present. ³ And David smites Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, in his going to bring back his power by the River [Euphrates;. ⁴ and David captures from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David destroys utterly the whole of the charioteers, only he leaves of them a hundred charioteers. ⁵ And Aram of Damascus comes to give help to Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David smites of Aram twenty and two thousand men;" ⁶ and David puts garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and Aram is to David for a servant, bearing a present; and Yahweh saves David whithersoever he has gone;" ⁷ and David takes the shields of gold which were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brings them to Jerusalem;" ⁸ and from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, has king David taken very much brass. ⁹ And Toi king of Hamath hears that David has smitten all the force of Hadadezer, ¹⁰ and Toi sends Joram his son unto king David to ask of him of welfare, and to bless him, (because that he has fought against Hadadezer, and smites him, for a man of wars [with] Toi had Hadadezer been), and in his hand have been vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass, ¹¹ also them did king David sanctify to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold which he sanctified of all the nations which he subdued. ¹² of Aram, and of Moab, and of the Bene-Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob king of Zobah. ¹³ And David makes a name in his turning back from his smiting Aram in the valley of Salt--eighteen thousand; ¹⁴ and he puts in Edom garrisons--in all Edom he has put garrisons, and all Edom are servants to David; and Yahweh saves David whithersoever he has gone. ¹⁵ And David reigns over all Israel, and David is doing judgment and righteousness to all his people, ¹⁶ and Joab son of Zeruiah [is] over the host, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud [is] remembrancer, ¹⁷ and Zadok son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech son of Abiathar, [are] priests, and Seraiah [is] scribe, ¹⁸ and Benaiah son of Jehoiada [is over] both the Cherethite and the Pelethite, and the sons of David have been ministers.