The VIII. Chapter.
[ A] ANd it fortuned after this, yt Dauid smote ye Philistynes,* 1.1 and discomfited them, and toke the brydell of bondage out of the Philistynes hande. * 1.2 He smote the Moabites also to the grounde, so that he broughte two partes of them to death, and let one parte lyue. Thus the Moabites were subdued vnto Dauid, so yt they brough¦te him giftes.
Dauid smote Hadad Eser also the sonne of Rehob kynge of Zoba, whan he wēte to fetch his power agayne at ye water Euphra¦tes. And of them toke Dauid a thousande & seuen hundreth horsmen, and twenty thou∣sande fote men, and lamed all the charettes, saue an hundreth which he kepte behynde. But the Siryans came from Damascon to helpe Hadad Eser kynge of Zoba. And Da¦uid smote two and twentye thousande men of the Syrians, and layed people vnto Da∣mascus in Syria.
Thus was Syria subdued vnto Dauid, so that they broughte him giftes: for ye LOR¦DE helped Dauid whither so euer he wente. And Dauid toke ye shyldes of golde, which Hadad Esers seruauntes had, and brough∣te them to Ierusalem. But from Bethah & Berothai ye cities of Hadad Eser toke Da¦uid very moch brasse.
[ B] * 1.3 Whan Thoi the kynge of Hemath her∣de, that Dauid had smytten all the power of Hadad Eser, he sent his sonne Ioram vnto Dauid to salute him frendly, & to blesse him, because he had foughten with Adad Eser and smytten him (for Thoi had warre with Hadad Eser) and had Iewels with him of syluer, of golde, and of brasse: which kynge Dauid halowed also vnto ye LORDE, with the syluer and golde which he sanctified vn∣to the LORDE from all the Heythē, whom he subdued, from Siria, fro Moab, from the childrē of Ammon, from the Philistynes, frō Amalek, from the spoyle of Hadad Eser ye sonne of Rehob kynge of Zoba.
[ C] Dauid gat him selfe a name also whan he came, * 1.4 and smote eightene thousande of ye Sirians in ye Salt valley. And he layed peo¦ple in all Edomea, * 1.5 and all Edem was sub¦dued vnto Dauid: for the LORDE helped Dauid, whither so euer he wente. Thus was Dauid kynge ouer all Israel. And he execu∣ted iudgmente and righteousnes vnto all ye people. * 1.6 Ioab ye sonne of Zeru Ia was cap¦tayne ouer the hoost. Iosaphat the sonne of Ahilud was Chaunceler. Zadok the sonne of Achitob, & Ahimelech the sonne of Abia¦thar were prestes. Seraia was Scrybe. Be∣naia the sonne of Ioiada was ouer ye Chr••¦thians & Plethians. And the sonnes of Da∣uid were * 1.7 prestes.