1 Chronicles 20: David’s Victorious Battles – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | Conquest of Philistine Giants, War with Ammonites, and Joab’s Courage

Listen to this clear and engaging audio recording of 1 Chronicles 20 and experience the triumph of David’s battles against the Philistine giants, his victory over the Ammonites, and the heroism of Joab. Follow the details of the wars, the strategic alliances, and the spoils of war. This chapter is an excellent resource for study or meditation, and it will inspire and encourage you.

1 CHRONICLES 20 (NIV)

1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed
forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and
besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it
in ruins.

2 David took the crown from the head of their king—its weight was
found to be a talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones—and it was
placed on David’s head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city

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and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws
and with iron picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then
David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

4 In the course of time, war broke out with the Philistines, at Gezer. At that
time Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the
Rephaites, and the Philistines were subjugated.

5 In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the
brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver’s
rod.

6 In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with
six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also
was descended from Rapha.

7 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea,
David’s brother, killed him.

8 These were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David
and his men.