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Later, David defeated the Philistines, conquered them, and took the city of Gath and the small towns around it.
2
He also defeated the people of Moab. So the people of Moab became servants of David and gave him the payment he demanded.
3
David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah all the way to the town of Hamath as he tried to spread his kingdom to the Euphrates River.
4
David captured one thousand of his chariots, seven thousand men who rode in chariots, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He crippled all but a hundred of the chariot horses.
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Arameans from Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, but David killed twenty-two thousand of them.
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Then David put groups of soldiers in Damascus in Aram. The Arameans became David's servants and gave him the payments he demanded. So the Lord gave David victory everywhere he went.
The eighteenth and nineteenth chapters are the same with 2Sa 8:1-10:19, 20:1-26 with very little variations, which are observed in the notes on them, to which the reader is referred. 18850-950102-2024-1Ch18.2