1 E depois disto aconteceu que Davi derrotou os filisteus, e os sujeitou; e tomou a Gate, e os lugares da sua jurisdição, da mão dos filisteus.
2 Também derrotou os moabitas; e os moabitas ficaram por servos de Davi, pagando tributos.
3 Também Davi derrotou a Hadar-Ezer, rei de Zobá, junto a Hamate, quando ele ia estabelecer o seu domínio sobre o rio Eufrates.
4 E Davi lhe tomou mil carros, e sete mil cavaleiros, e vinte mil homens de pé; e Davi jarretou todos os cavalos dos carros; porém reservou deles para cem carros.
5 E vieram os sírios de Damasco a socorrer a Hadar-Ezer, rei de Zobá; porém Davi feriu dos sírios vinte e dois mil homens.
6 E Davi pôs guarnições na Síria de Damasco, e os sírios ficaram por servos de Davi, pagando-lhe tributo; e o Senhor guardava a Davi, por onde quer que ia.
7 E Davi tomou os escudos de ouro, que tinham os servos de Hadar-Ezer, e os trouxe a Jerusalém.
8 Também de Tibate, e de Cum, cidades de Hadar-Ezer, tomou Davi muitíssimo cobre, de que Salomão fez o mar de cobre, e as colunas, e os utensílios de cobre.
9 E ouvindo Toí, rei de Hamate, que Davi destruíra todo o exército de Hadar-Ezer, rei de Zobá,
10 Mandou seu filho Hadorão a Davi, para lhe perguntar como estava, e para o abençoar, por haver pelejado contra Hadar-Ezer, e por havê-lo ferido (porque Hadar-Ezer fazia guerra a Toí), enviando-lhe também toda a sorte de vasos de ouro, e de prata, e de cobre.
11 Os quais Davi também consagrou ao Senhor, juntamente com a prata e ouro que trouxera de todas as demais nações: dos edomeus, e dos moabitas, e dos filhos de Amom, e dos filisteus, e dos amalequitas.
12 Também Abisai, filho de Zeruia, feriu a dezoito mil edomeus no Vale do Sal.
13 E pôs guarnições em Edom, e todos os edomeus ficaram por servos de Davi; e o Senhor guardava a Davi, por onde quer que ia.
14 E Davi reinou sobre todo o Israel; e fazia juízo e justiça a todo o seu povo.
15 E Joabe, filho de Zeruia, comandava o exército; Jeosafá, filho de Ailude, era cronista.
16 E Zadoque, filho de Aitube, e Abimeleque, filho de Abiatar, eram sacerdotes; e Savsa escrivão.
17 E Benaia, filho de Joiada, estava sobre os quereteus e peleteus; porém os filhos de Davi eram os primeiros junto ao rei.
1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.
2 And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.
3 Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.
4 And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.
5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand Aramaeans.
6 Then David put armed forces in Damascus, and the Aramaeans became his servants and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
7 And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer, David took to Jerusalem.
8 And from Tibhath and from Cun, towns of Hadadezer, David took a great store of brass, of which Solomon made the great brass water-vessel and the brass pillars and vessels.
9 Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,
10 He sent his son Hadoram to King David, to give him words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had been at war with Tou; and he gave him all sorts of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
11 These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold he had taken from all nations; from Edom and Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines and from Amalek.
12 And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,
13 David put armed forces in all the towns of Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
14 So David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
15 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records.
16 And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;
17 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.