20:1 Then it happened ①in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it.
▷ ①Lit at the return of the year
20:2 David took the crown of ①their king from his head, and he found it to weigh a ②talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoils of the city, a very great amount.
▷ ①Another reading is Malcam from, a variant of the Ammonite god Milcom ②About 75 lb. or 34 kg
20:3 He brought out the people who were in it, and ①put them to work at saws, iron picks, and axes. And David did the same to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
▷ ①So 2 Sam 12:31; MT sawed them apart with
20:4 Now it came about after this, that war ①broke out at ②Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite ③killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the ④giants, and they were subdued.
▷ ①Lit stood up ②In 2 Sam 21:18, Gob ③Lit struck ④Heb Raphah, and so in vv 6, 8
20:5 And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair ①killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
▷ ①Lit struck
20:6 Again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; and he also was descended from the giants.
20:7 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, ①killed him.
▷ ①Lit struck
20:8 These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.