1 Chronicles 20 Cross References - LEB

¹ And it happened that _⌊in the spring time of year_⌋,* the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led the troops of the army and destroyed the land of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋.* And he came and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it. ² And David took the crown of their king from his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold. And in it was a precious stone. Then it was placed upon the head of David. And he brought out the booty of the city, a large amount. ³ And the people who were in it he brought out, and _⌊he set them to work with saws and iron implements and axes_⌋.* Thus David did to all the cities of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋.* Then David returned, and all the nation went with him. ⁴ And after this there arose a war in Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim. And they were subdued. ⁵ And again there was war with the Philistines. And Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. ⁶ And again there was war in Gath. And there was a _⌊very tall_⌋* man there, and _⌊he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all_⌋.* He himself was also a descendant of the Rephaim. ⁷ And he taunted Israel, but Jehonathan son of Shimea, brother of David, struck him down. ⁸ These were born to the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

¹¹ (For only Og, king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. Indeed, his bedstead—it was a bedstead of iron. It is in Rabbah of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋.* Nine cubits is its length, and four cubits is its width according to the cubit of a man.)

¹ _⌊It came about in the spring_⌋,* at the time _⌊kings_⌋* go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel. They ravaged all of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* and besieged Rabbah, but David was remaining in Jerusalem.

¹⁶ _⌊When Joab was besieging_⌋* the city, he put Uriah toward the place which he knew _⌊there were valiant warriors_⌋.* ¹⁷ The men of the city came out and fought with Joab. Some from the army from the servants of David fell; Uriah the Hittite also died. ¹⁸ Joab sent and told David all of the news of the battle. ¹⁹ He instructed the messenger, saying, "As you are finishing to speak all the news of the battle to the king, ²⁰ if the anger of the king rises and he says to you, 'Why did you go near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from atop the wall? ²¹ Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerub-bosheth,* if not a woman who threw an upper millstone on him from atop the wall and he died at Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?' Then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'" ²² Then the messenger left, and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him to say. ²³ The messenger said to David, "Because _⌊the men overpowered us_⌋,* the men came out to us in the field, but _⌊we forced them back_⌋* to the entrance of the gate. ²⁴ The archers shot at your servant from atop the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; your servant Uriah the Hittite also died." ²⁵ Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, '_⌊Do not feel badly about this matter_⌋;* _⌊now one and then another_⌋* the sword will devour. Intensify your attack on the city and overthrow it.'" And he encouraged him.

²⁶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋,* and he captured _⌊the royal city_⌋.* ²⁷ Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, "We have fought against Rabbah, and we captured the city of the waters. ²⁸ So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it." ²⁹ So David gathered all of the army, and he went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it. ³⁰ He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight was a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it and it was put on David's head.) He brought out the plunder of the city _⌊in great abundance_⌋.* ³¹ He also brought out the people who were in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋,* and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem.

²⁷ Just as David had arrived in Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* and Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim

²² Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and he said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself; _⌊consider well_⌋* what you should do, for the king of Aram is coming against you at the turn of the year."

²⁶ It happened at the turning of the year that Ben-Hadad mustered Aram and went up to Aphek for the war with Israel.

²⁰ Elisha died and they buried him. Now the raiding parties of Moab came _⌊in the spring_⌋.*

¹¹ Then I said, "Until when, Lord?"
And he said,
"Until the cities lie wasted without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is ruined and a waste,

¹⁶ Look! I myself have created the craftsman who blows* the fire of coals, and who produces* a weapon for his work; also* I myself have created the destroyer to destroy.

² _⌊Therefore_⌋* look, days are coming," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, "and I will sound against Rabbah, the _⌊Ammonites_⌋,* the alarm of the war, and it will become as a mound of desolation, and its daughters will burn in the fire. Then Israel will dispossess his dispossessors," says Yahweh. ³ "Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.

²⁰ You must mark a road for the coming of the sword to Rabbah of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* and to Judah, in Jerusalem the fortified.

⁵ And I will make Rabbah as a pasture of camels and the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* as a haunt of flocks, and they will know that I am Yahweh." '"

¹⁴ So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah and it will devour its citadel fortresses with a war cry on the day of battle, with a storm on the day of the violent tempest.

¹¹ King David dedicated them also to Yahweh along with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from all of the nations which he had subdued; ¹² from Aram and from Moab and from the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* and from the Philistines and from Amalek and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah.

¹¹ King David dedicated these also to Yahweh, along with the silver and gold that he had taken from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, and Amalek.

¹⁴ And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all sorts of work in the field—with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.

²³ Therefore you are cursed; some of you will always be slaves as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."

⁶ The officials of Succoth said, "Is the hand* of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give bread to your army?" ⁷ Gideon said, "Well then, when Yahweh gives Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will trample your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness."

¹⁶ He took the elders of the city and the thorn bushes and briers of the wilderness, and _⌊he trampled_⌋* the men of Succoth with them. ¹⁷ He broke down the tower of Penuel, and he killed the men of the city.

³¹ He also brought out the people who were in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋,* and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem.

²¹ their children who remained after them in the land, whom the _⌊Israelites_⌋* were not able to completely destroy, Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, until this very day.

² And David said, "I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David came to the land of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋,* to Hanun, to comfort him. ³ But the princes of the _⌊Ammonites_⌋* said to Hanun, "_⌊Do you think_⌋* because David sent comforters to you that David honors your father? Is it not for the purpose of exploring so as to overthrow and spy out the land that his servants have come to you?" ⁴ So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved them and cut off their garments at the middle, up to the buttocks, and sent them away. ⁵ And they went and told David concerning the men, and he inquired of them, for the men were very disgraced. And the king said, "Dwell in Jericho until your beards grow out; then return."

⁸ Your hand will find all your enemies; your right hand will find those who hate you. ⁹ You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.

¹² the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

³ Then it goes down, to the west, to the territory of the Japhletites,* up to the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and _⌊it ends_⌋* at the sea.

¹⁵ There was war again for the Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought the Philistines, and David grew weary.

¹⁸ It happened afterward that there was again battle at Gob with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph who was among the descendants of the Raphah. ¹⁹ There was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath* the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like the beam of a weaver. ²⁰ Once again there was battle at Gath, and there was _⌊a man of great size_⌋.* The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet were six and six, twenty-four in number. He was also born to the Raphah. ²¹ He taunted Israel but Jonathan the son of Shimei, the brother of David, killed him. ²² These four were born for the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

²⁹ Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

⁴ Then _⌊a champion_⌋* went out from the camps of the Philistines, whose name was Goliath from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span.*

⁷ The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam and the point of his spear weighed six hundred iron shekels. _⌊His shield bearer_⌋* was walking in front of him.

⁹ So the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom you killed in the valley of Elah is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, then take it, for there is no other except it here." And David said, "There is none like it; give it to me."

¹⁰ And he inquired of Yahweh for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

¹⁹ There was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath* the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like the beam of a weaver. ²⁰ Once again there was battle at Gath, and there was _⌊a man of great size_⌋.* The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet were six and six, twenty-four in number. He was also born to the Raphah.

⁹ So Jesse made Shammah pass before Samuel, but he said, "Yahweh also has not chosen this one."

¹⁰ Then the Philistine said, "I hereby defy the battle lines of Israel today! Give me a man so that we may fight each other!"

²⁶ Now David had spoken to the men who were standing with him, saying, "What will be done for the man who defeats this Philistine and removes the disgrace from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he defies the battle lines of the living God?"

³⁶ Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he defied the battle lines of the living God."

¹³ And Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

²³ Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up your voice and lifted your eyes upward?
To the holy one of Israel!

¹² So now give me this hill country that Yahweh spoke of on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakites were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps Yahweh is with me, and I will drive them out just as Yahweh promised."*

¹¹ I looked again and saw under the sun that the race does not belong to the swift, the battle does not belong to the mighty, food does not belong to the wise, wealth does not belong to the intelligent, and success* does not belong to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all of them.

²³ Thus says Yahweh,
"The wise man must not boast in his wisdom, and the warrior must not boast in his might, the wealthy man must not boast in his wealth.

³¹ What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?