BNP blending of 2 Samuel 12:26-31 & 1 Chronicles 20

Bible Narrative Project Blending #7: 2 Samuel 12:26-31 & 1 Chronicles 20

War Again with Philistine Giants

1 Then it happened in 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 fought against, besieged and captured the royal city Rabbah. 27 Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah, I have even captured the city of waters. 28 “Now therefore, gather the rest of the people together and camp against the city and capture it, or I will capture the city myself and it will be named after me.” But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it. 29 So David gathered all the people and went to Rabbah, fought against it and captured it. 2 David took the crown of their king from his head, and he found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount. 3 He also brought out the people who were in it, and set them under and cut them with the saws and with sharp iron instruments and with iron axes, and made them pass through the brickkiln. And thus David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. 4 Now it came about after this, that war broke out at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the giants, and they were subdued. 5 And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 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. 7 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him. 8 These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.