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And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.
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And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.
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And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.
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And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.
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And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.
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And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
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And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.
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And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.
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And when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer,