¹Now after this it came to pass, that David [beloved] struck the P’lishtim [Immigrants] , and subdued them, and took Gat [Winepress] and her towns out of the hand of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] .

²And he struck Mo’av [Seed of my Father] ; and the Mo’avi [of his father] became David’s [beloved] ’s servants, [and] brought gifts.

³And David [beloved] struck Hadad’ezer [mighty helps] king of Tzovah [station] unto Hamat [Fortress] , as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates (to break forth, to gush) .

⁴And David [beloved] took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David [beloved] also hamstringed all the chariot [horses] , but reserved of them an hundred chariots.

⁵And when the Aram [exalted] [Syrians] of Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver] came to help Hadad’ezer [mighty helps] king of Tzovah [station] , David [beloved] killed of the Aram [exalted] [Syrians] two and twenty thousand men.

⁶Then David [beloved] put [garrisons] in Aram [exalted] in Dammesek; and the Aram [exalted] [Syrians] became David’s [beloved] ’s servants, [and] brought gifts. Thus the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) preserved David [beloved] to wherever he went.

⁷And David [beloved] took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadad’ezer [mighty helps] [Hadad [mighty] is help] , and brought them to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] .

⁸Likewise from Tivchat [extension] , and from Chun, cities of Hadad’ezer [mighty helps] [Hadad [mighty] is help] , brought David [beloved] very much brass, which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

⁹Now when To’u [wander] king of Hamat [Fortress] heard how David [beloved] had smitten all the host of Hadad’ezer [mighty helps] king of Tzovah [station] ;

¹⁰He sent Hadoram [noble honour] his son to king David [beloved] , to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadad’ezer [mighty helps] [Hadad [mighty] is help] , and smitten him; (for Hadad’ezer [mighty helps] had war with To’u [wander];) and [with him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

¹¹Them also king David [beloved] dedicated unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , with the silver and the gold that he brought from all [these] nations; from Edom [Red] , and from Mo’av [Seed of my Father] , and from the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] , and from the P’lishtim [Immigrants] , and from ‘Amalek [Dweller in a Valley] .

¹²Moreover Avishai [my father is a gift] the son of Tz’ruyah [balsam] killed of the Edomi [red] in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

¹³And he put garrisons in Edom [Red] ; and all the Edomi [red] became David’s [beloved] ’s servants. Thus the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) preserved David [beloved] to wherever he went.

¹⁴So David [beloved] reigned over all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , and executed judgment and justice among all his people.

¹⁵And Yo’av [Yehovah is father] the son of Tz’ruyah [balsam] [was] over the host; and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the son of Achilud [child’s brother] , recorder.

¹⁶And Tzadok [righteous] the son of Achituv [my brother is good] , and Avi-Melekh [My Father is King] the son of Avyatar [my father is great] , [were] the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

¹⁷And B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] [was] over the K’reti [executioners] and the P’leti [couriers] ; and the sons of David [beloved] [were] chief about the king.