1 Chronicles 20 Cross References - MSTC

¹ And the year following about the time that kings go out a warfare, Joab carried out the army of the host and destroyed the country of the children of Ammon, and went and besieged Rabbah and destroyed it: But David bode at Jerusalem while Joab smote Rabbah and destroyed it. ² And David took the crown of their king off his head, and found therein the weight of a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it, and it was set on David's head. And he brought out also the spoil of the city, which was exceeding much. ³ And he brought out the people that were in it and tamed them with saws and harrows of iron and with brakes, and so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And then David and all the people came again to Jerusalem. ⁴ After that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines. At which time Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Sippai that was of the children of Rephaim, and they were subdued. ⁵ And there was battle again with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear was like the beam of a weaver. ⁶ And there chanced yet again war at Gath, where was a man of a size with twenty four fingers and toes, six on every hand and six on every foot, and was the son of Haraphah and defied Israel. ⁷ And Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him. ⁸ These were born of Haraphah at Gath and were overthrown by the hand of David and of his servants.

¹¹ For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Giants: behold, his iron bed is yet at Rabbah, among the children of Ammon: nine cubits long and four cubits broad, of the cubits of a man.

¹ And it came to pass in the beginning of a new year, in the times when kings are wont to go forth to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel. And they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

¹⁶ And as Joab beseiged the city he assigned Uriah unto a place where he wist that strong men were. ¹⁷ And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And there were certain overthrown of the people and of the servants of David — and Uriah the Hittite died also. ¹⁸ Then Joab sent and told David all the process of the war, ¹⁹ and charged the messengers, saying, "When thou hast made an end of telling the story of war unto the king, ²⁰ if he begin to fume and say unto thee, 'Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city to fight? Wist ye not that men would hurl and shoot from the walls? ²¹ Who smote Abimelech son of Jerubbosheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from off the walls, that he died in Thebes? Why then went ye nigh the walls?" Then say thou, 'Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'" ²² And the messengers went and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him with, ²³ and said unto David, "The men prevail against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we stuck unto them, even unto the entering of the gate. ²⁴ And the shooters shot from the walls, and some of the servants of the king be dead. And thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." ²⁵ Then said David unto the messenger, "Thus wise say unto Joab, 'Let not that thing trouble thee. For the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city and destroy it, and see that thou courage, Joab."

²⁶ And as Joab fought against Rabbah, the city of the children of Ammon, he took the king's Tower, ²⁷ and sent messengers to David, saying, "I have made assault to Rabbah, and also have taken the castle from whence they had their water. ²⁸ Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and come and besiege the city and take it: lest if I take it, the victory be ascribed to me." ²⁹ And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah and assaulted it and gat it. ³⁰ And he took the king's crown from off his head, which weighed a hundred weight of gold, and was set with precious stones. And David wore it on his head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in exceeding great abundance. ³¹ And he brought out the people that was therein and sawed them and drew harrows of iron upon them, and shred some of them with shredding knives of iron, and thrust some into furnaces. And so he served all the cities of the children of Ammon. And then David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

²⁷ And when David was come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash out of Rabbah, the city of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel out of Lodebar and Barzillai the Gileadite out of Rogelim,

²² Then there came a Prophet to the king of Israel, and said to him, "Go forth and play the man: be wise and take heed what thou doest. For when the year is about, the king of Syria will come against thee again."

²⁶ And as soon as the year was about, Benhadad numbered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to war with Israel.

²⁰ When Elisha was dead and buried the soldiers of the Moabites came into the land, the year following.

¹¹ Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.

¹⁶ Behold, I make the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and he maketh a weapon after his handy work. I make also the waster to destroy:

² Behold therefore, the time cometh, sayeth the LORD, that I will bring a noise of war into Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be laid on a desolate heap, and her cities burnt up: and the Israelites shall be lords over those that had them in possession afore, sayeth the LORD. ³ Heshbon shall mourn, for it shall be rooted out of the ground, sayeth the LORD. The cities of Rabbah shall cry out, and gird themselves with sackcloth. They shall mourn, and run about the walls; for their king shall be led away prisoner: yea his priests and princes with him.

²⁰ Make thee a street, that the sword may come toward Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to the strong city of Jerusalem.

⁵ As for Rabbah, I will make of it a stall for camels, and of Ammon a sheepfold: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

¹⁴ Therefore I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah, that shall consume her palaces: with a great cry, in the day of battle, in tempest and in the day of storm.

¹¹ And them also King David did dedicate unto the LORD with the silver and gold that he consecrated of all nations which he subdued: ¹² of the Syrians, the Moabites, the children of Ammon, the Philistines, the Amalekites, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

¹¹ And king David dedicated them also unto the LORD with the silver and gold that he brought from all nations, from the Edomites, from the Moabites, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, from the Amalekites.

¹⁴ and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.

²³ And now therefore cursed be you, and there shall not cease to be of you, bondmen and hewers of wood and drawers of water unto the house of my God."

⁶ And the lords of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hands that we should give bread unto thy company?" ⁷ And Gideon said, "Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, I will tear the flesh of you with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."

¹⁶ And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and all to tear them therewith. ¹⁷ And he brake down the tower of Phanuel and slew the men of the city.

³¹ And he brought out the people that was therein and sawed them and drew harrows of iron upon them, and shred some of them with shredding knives of iron, and thrust some into furnaces. And so he served all the cities of the children of Ammon. And then David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

²¹ the children of the said nations that were left in the land, because the children of Israel were not able to destroy them, did Solomon make tributaries unto this day.

² Then said David, "I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father dealt kindly with me." And thereupon David sent messengers to comfort him over the death of his father. And when the servants of David were come into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him, ³ the lords of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, "Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father in thy sight, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? Nay, but it is to search and overthrow and to spy out the land, that his servants be come unto thee." ⁴ Whereupon Hanun took David's servants and shaved them, and cut off their coats hard by their buttocks and sent them away. ⁵ And there went that told David how the men were served. And the king sent to meet them — for the men were exceedingly ashamed — and said, "Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return."

⁸ All thine enemies shall feel thine hand; thy righthand shall find out them that hate thee. ⁹ Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in the time of thy wrath; the LORD shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them.

¹² The king of Eglon; The king of Gezer;

³ and goeth down westward, even unto the coasts of Japhleti, and unto the coasts of Bethhoron the nether, and so to Gezer, and the ends of their coasts came to the sea.

¹⁵ And the Philistines had yet again war with Israel. And David went down, and his servants with him, and fought with the Philistines.

¹⁸ And there was yet, after this, battle with the Philistines at Nob, in which Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph of the sons of Haraphah. ¹⁹ And there was yet the third battle in Gob, with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of the Jair slew Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite: the staff of whose spear was as great as a weaver's cloth beam. ²⁰ And there was yet battle in Gath, where was a man of a size and had on every hand six fingers and on every foot six toes — twenty four in all — and was also of the kindred of the Giants, and defied Israel. ²¹ And Jonathan the son of Shimei, the brother of David, slew him. ²² These four were of the sons of the Giants in Gath, and were overthrown by the hand of David and by the hands of his servants.

²⁹ Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite;

⁴ And then came a man and stood in the midst, out of the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: six cubits and a handbreadth long,

⁷ And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam. And his spearhead weighed six hundred sicles of iron. And one bearing a shield went before him.

⁹ Then the priest answered, "The sword of Goliath, the Philistine whom thou slewest in Oakdale; that is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here." And David said, "There is none to that, give it me."

¹⁰ which asked counsel of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and the sword of Goliath the Philistine also."

¹⁹ And there was yet the third battle in Gob, with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of the Jair slew Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite: the staff of whose spear was as great as a weaver's cloth beam. ²⁰ And there was yet battle in Gath, where was a man of a size and had on every hand six fingers and on every foot six toes — twenty four in all — and was also of the kindred of the Giants, and defied Israel.

⁹ Then Jesse made Shammah come, and he said, "Neither hath the LORD chosen him."

¹⁰ And the Philistine said, "I have defied the host of Israel this day; give me a man and let us fight together."

²⁶ Then spake David to the men that stood by and said, "What shall be done to the man that beateth this Philistine and taketh away the shame from Israel? For what is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should revile the host of the living God?"

³⁶ For both a Lion and also a Bear hath thy servant slain. And this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, for his railing on the host of the living God."

¹³ And Jesse begat his eldest son Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

²³ But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice, and exalted thy proud looks? Even against the holy one of Israel.

¹² Now, therefore, give me this mountain which the LORD at that time promised, for thou heardest at the time, how the Anakims were there, and how the cities were great and walled. I trust the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out as the LORD said."

¹¹ So I turned me unto other things under the Sun, and I saw that in running it helpeth not to be swift; in battle it helpeth not to be strong; to feeding it helpeth not to be wise; to riches, it helpeth not to be suttle; to be had in favour, it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in time and fortune.

²³ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Let not the wise man rejoice in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength; neither the rich man in his riches.

³¹ What shall we then say unto these things? if God be on our side: who can be against us?