1. Later, David attacked and defeated the Philistines. He captured their town of Gath and the nearby villages.
2. David also defeated the Moabites, and so they had to accept him as their ruler and pay taxes to him.
3. While King Hadadezer of Zobah was trying to gain control of the territory near the River Euphrates, David met him in battle at Hamath and defeated him.
4. David captured one thousand chariots, seven thousand chariot drivers, and twenty thousand soldiers. And he crippled all but one hundred of the horses.
5. When troops from the Syrian kingdom of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, David killed twenty-two thousand of them.
6. Then David stationed some of his troops in Damascus, and the people there had to accept David as their ruler and pay taxes to him.Everywhere David went, the Lord helped him win battles.
7. Hadadezer's officers had carried gold shields, but David took these shields and brought them back to Jerusalem.
8. He also took a lot of bronze from the cities of Tibhath and Cun, which had belonged to Hadadezer. Later, Solomon used this bronze to make the large bowl called the Sea, and to make the pillars and other furnishings for the temple.