017:019 Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you worked all this greatness, to make known all [these] great things. 017:020 Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 017:021 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt? 017:022 For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God. 017:023 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken. 017:024 Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David your servant is established before you. 017:025 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant found [in his heart] to pray before you. 017:026 Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant: 017:027 and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you: for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever. 018:001 After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines. 018:002 He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute. 018:003 David struck Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates. 018:004 David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. 018:005 When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men. 018:006 Then David put [garrisons] in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. 018:007 David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. 018:008 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. 018:009 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadarezer king of Zobah, 018:010 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadarezer and struck him;