(for Hadarezer had wars with Tou;) and [he had with him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass. 018:011 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. 018:012 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand. 018:013 He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went. 018:014 David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness to all his people. 018:015 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; 018:016 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe; 018:017 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king. 019:001 It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place. 019:002 David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shown kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. 019:003 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you that David does honor your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? 019:004 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. 019:005 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Stay at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return. 019:006 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. 019:007 So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. 019:008 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men. 019:009 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.