¹Factum est autem post anni circulum,Now it happened that, after the course of a year,eo tempore quo solent reges ad bella procedere,in the time when kings usually go forth to war,congregavit Joab exercitum, et robur militiæ,Joab gathered an army with experienced soldiers,et vastavit terram filiorum Ammon:and he laid waste to the land of the sons of Ammon.perrexitque et obsedit Rabba.And he continued on and besieged Rabbah.Porro David manebat in Jerusalem, quando Joab percussit Rabba et destruxit eam.But David was staying in Jerusalem when Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it.

¹Factum est autem post anni circulum,Now it happened that, after the course of a year,eo tempore quo solent reges ad bella procedere,in the time when kings usually go forth to war,congregavit Joab exercitum, et robur militiæ,Joab gathered an army with experienced soldiers,et vastavit terram filiorum Ammon:and he laid waste to the land of the sons of Ammon.perrexitque et obsedit Rabba.And he continued on and besieged Rabbah.Porro David manebat in Jerusalem, quando Joab percussit Rabba et destruxit eam.But David was staying in Jerusalem when Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it.

²Tulit autem David coronam Melchom de capite ejus,Then David took the crown of Milcom from his head,et invenit in ea auri pondo talentum,and he found in it the weight of one talent of gold,et pretiosissimas gemmas, fecitque sibi inde diadema:and very precious gems. And he made for himself a diadem from it.manubias quoque urbis plurimas tulit;Also, he took the best spoils of the city, which were very many.

²Tulit autem David coronam Melchom de capite ejus,Then David took the crown of Milcom from his head,et invenit in ea auri pondo talentum,and he found in it the weight of one talent of gold,et pretiosissimas gemmas, fecitque sibi inde diadema:and very precious gems. And he made for himself a diadem from it.manubias quoque urbis plurimas tulit;Also, he took the best spoils of the city, which were very many.

³populum autem, qui erat in ea, eduxit,Then he led away the people who were in it.et fecit super eos tribulas,And he caused plows,et trahas,and sleds,et ferrata carpenta transire,and iron chariots to go over them,ita ut dissecarentur et contererentur.so much so that they were cut apart and crushed.Sic fecit David cunctis urbibus filiorum Ammon:So did David treat all the cities of the sons of Ammon.et reversus est cum omni populo suo in Jerusalem.And he returned with all his people to Jerusalem.

³populum autem, qui erat in ea, eduxit,Then he led away the people who were in it.et fecit super eos tribulas,And he caused plows,et trahas,and sleds,et ferrata carpenta transire,and iron chariots to go over them,ita ut dissecarentur et contererentur.so much so that they were cut apart and crushed.Sic fecit David cunctis urbibus filiorum Ammon:So did David treat all the cities of the sons of Ammon.et reversus est cum omni populo suo in Jerusalem.And he returned with all his people to Jerusalem.

⁴Post hæc initum est bellum in Gazer adversum Philisthæos,After these things,in quo percussit Sobochai Husathites,a war was begun at Gezer against the Philistines,Saphai de genere Raphaim,in which Sibbecai the Hushathite struck Sippai from the race of the Rephaim,et humiliavit eos.and he humbled them.

⁴Post hæc initum est bellum in Gazer adversum Philisthæos,After these things,in quo percussit Sobochai Husathites,a war was begun at Gezer against the Philistines,Saphai de genere Raphaim,in which Sibbecai the Hushathite struck Sippai from the race of the Rephaim,et humiliavit eos.and he humbled them.

⁵Aliud quoque bellum gestum est adversus Philisthæos,Also, another war was undertaken against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus,in quo percussit Adeodatus filius Saltus Bethlehemites fratrem Goliath Gethæi,a son of the forest, a Bethlehemite, struck the brother of Goliath the Gittite,cujus hastæ lignum erat quasi liciatorium texentium.the wood of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

⁵Aliud quoque bellum gestum est adversus Philisthæos,Also, another war was undertaken against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus,in quo percussit Adeodatus filius Saltus Bethlehemites fratrem Goliath Gethæi,a son of the forest, a Bethlehemite, struck the brother of Goliath the Gittite,cujus hastæ lignum erat quasi liciatorium texentium.the wood of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

⁶Sed et aliud bellum accidit in Geth,Then too, another war occurred in Gath,in quo fuit homo longissimus,in which there was a very tall man,senos habens digitos,having six digits,id est,that is,simul viginti quatuor:all together twenty-four.qui et ipse de Rapha fuerat stirpe generatus.This man too was born from the stock of the Rephaim.

⁶Sed et aliud bellum accidit in Geth,Then too, another war occurred in Gath,in quo fuit homo longissimus,in which there was a very tall man,senos habens digitos,having six digits,id est,that is,simul viginti quatuor:all together twenty-four.qui et ipse de Rapha fuerat stirpe generatus.This man too was born from the stock of the Rephaim.

⁷Hic blasphemavit Israël:He blasphemed Israel. And Jonathan,et percussit eum Jonathan filius Samaa fratris David.the son of Shimea, the brother of David, struck him down.Hi sunt filii Rapha in Geth, qui ceciderunt in manu David et servorum ejus.These were the sons of the Rephaim in Gath, who fell by the hand of David and his servants.

⁷Hic blasphemavit Israël:He blasphemed Israel. And Jonathan,et percussit eum Jonathan filius Samaa fratris David.the son of Shimea, the brother of David, struck him down.Hi sunt filii Rapha in Geth, qui ceciderunt in manu David et servorum ejus.These were the sons of the Rephaim in Gath, who fell by the hand of David and his servants.