5. When troops from the Aramean kingdom of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, David killed twenty thousand of them.
6. He left some of his soldiers in Damascus, and the Arameans 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 their arrows in gold cases hung over their shoulders, but David took these cases and brought them to Jerusalem.
8. He also took a lot of bronze from the cities of Betah and Berothai, which had belonged to Hadadezer.
11. David gave these to the Lord, just as he had done with the silver and gold that he had captured from
12. Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and from King Hadadezer of Zobah.
13. David fought the Edomite army in Salt Valley and killed eighteen thousand of their soldiers. When he returned, he built a monument.
14. David left soldiers all through Edom, and the people of Edom had to accept him as their ruler.Wherever David went, the Lord helped him.
15. David ruled all Israel with fairness and justice.