1And it came to pass at the time of the return of the year at the time when kings go out to battle that Joab led forth the army and wasted the country of the children of Ammon and came and besieged Rabbah But David tarried at Jerusalem And Joab smote Rabbah and overthrew it

Word By Word, In Hebrew Order1And it came to pass | 2at the time | 3of the return | 4of the year | 5at the time | 6when … go out | 7kings | 8that … led forth | 9Joab | 10— | 11army | 12the army | 13and wasted | 14— | 15the country | 16of the children | 17of Ammon | 18and came | 19and besieged | 20— | 21Rabbah | 22But David | 23tarried | 24at Jerusalem | 25And … smote | 26Joab | 27— | 28Rabbah | 29and overthrew it

2And David took the crown of their king from off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were precious stones in it and it was set upon David’s head and he brought forth the spoil of the city exceeding much

Word By Word, In Hebrew Order1And … took | 2David | 3— | 4the crown | 5of their king | 6from off | 7his head | 8and found it | 9to weigh | 10a talent | 11of gold | 12and there were … in it | 13stones | 14precious | 15and it was | 16upon | 17head | 18David’s | 19and … the spoil | 20of the city | 21he brought forth | 22much | 23exceeding

3And he brought forth the people that were therein and cut them with saws and with harrows of iron and with axes And thus did David unto all the cities of the children of Ammon And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem

Word By Word, In Hebrew Order1And | 2the people | 3that | 4were therein | 5he brought forth | 6and cut | 7with saws | 8and with harrows | 9of iron | 10and with axes | 11And thus | 12did | 13David | 14unto all | 15the cities | 16of the children | 17of Ammon | 18And … returned | 19David | 20and all | 21the people | 22to Jerusalem

4And it came to pass after this that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Sippai of the sons of the giant and they were subdued

Word By Word, In Hebrew Order1And it came to pass | 2after | 3this | 4that there arose | 5war | 6at Gezer | 7with | 8the Philistines | 9then | 10slew | 11Sibbecai | 12the Hushathite | 13— | 14Sippai | 15of the sons | 16of the giant | 17and they were subdued

5And there was again war with the Philistines and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam

Word By Word, In Hebrew Order1And there was | 2again | 3war | 4with | 5the Philistines | 6and … slew | 7Elhanan | 8the son | 9of Jair | 10— | 11Lahmi | 12the brother | 13of Goliath | 14the Gittite | 15the staff | 16of whose spear | 17was like … beam | 18a weaver’s

6And there was again war at Gath where was a man of great stature whose fingers and toes were four and twenty six on each hand and six on each foot and he also was born unto the giant

Word By Word, In Hebrew Order1And there was | 2again | 3war | 4at Gath | 5where was | 6a man | 7of great stature | 8whose fingers and toes | 9were … six | 10and six | 11twenty | 12four and | 13and … also | 14he | 15was born | 16unto the giant

7And when he defied Israel Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him

Word By Word, In Hebrew Order1And when he defied | 2— | 3Israel | 4slew him | 5Jonathan | 6the son | 7of Shimea | 8brother | 9David’s

8These were born unto the giant in Gath and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants

Word By Word, In Hebrew Order1These | 2were born | 3unto the giant | 4in Gath | 5and they fell | 6by the hand | 7of David | 8and by the hand | 9of his servants