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1–3. Conquest of Rabbah of the Ammonites. 4–8. Two wars with the Philistines. 1 Chronicles 20:1. A year later, at the time when kings go to war, Joab brought out an army and began to ravage the land of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. David remained in Jerusalem. Joab, having conquered Rabbah, destroyed it. 1 Chronicles 20:2. And David took the crown of their king from his head, and there was a talent of gold in it, and precious stones were on it; and it was placed on David's head. And he took a lot of booty out of the city. 1 Chronicles 20:3. And the people who were in it brought them out and killed them with saws, iron threshers and axes. So David did to all the cities of the Ammonites, and David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. The story of the conquest of Rabbah represents a modification of the narrative in the chapter (2 Samuel 11) on the same subject. The first verse up to the words: “Joab, having conquered Rabbah, destroyed her,” reproduces (2 Samuel 11:1). This expression is in direct contradiction with the testimony (2 Samuel 12:29) that Rabbah was taken by David himself, and not by Joab. In addition to the contradiction with the book. Kingdoms, in the book. Paralipomenon shows self-contradiction. According to the first verse, David remained in Jerusalem during the siege and conquest of Rabbah, and according to Art. 3 took part in this case. “So David did to all the cities of the Ammonites and returned to Jerusalem.” Finally, the author omits the story of David and Bathsheba that took place during the Ammonite War (2 Sam. 11:2ff.), as casting a shadow on his personality. 1 Chronicles 20:4. After this, war began with the Philistines in Gezer. Then Sovohai the Hushathite struck down Saph, one of the descendants of the Rephaim. And they calmed down. 1 Chronicles 20:5. And again there was a war with the Philistines. Then Elhanam the son of Jairus smote Lahmiah the brother of Goliath, the Gathite, whose spear-shaft was like a weaver's beam. 1 Chronicles 20:6. There was also a battle in Gath. There was one tall man who had six fingers, twenty-four in total. And he was also from the descendants of the Rephaim. 1 Chronicles 20:7. He reviled Israel, but Jonathan the son of Shima, David's brother, struck him down. 1 Chronicles 20:8. These were those born of Rephaim in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. According to the book Chronicles, the wars with the Philistines described in these verses fell for a time after the conquest of Rabbah (“after that” - verse 4); Meanwhile, 2 books each. Kingdoms, they took place much later - after the Gibeonites handed over the descendants of Saul (2 Sam. 21:18, etc.). Sovochai the Hushathite - see (1 Chronicles 11:29). You might be interested in: