1├╚ 18:1 ╬OW AFTER THIS IT CAME TO PASS, THAT ─AVID SMOTE THE ╨HILISTINES, AND SUBDUED THEM, AND TOOK ╟ATH AND HER TOWNS OUT OF THE HAND OF THE ╨HILISTINES.
1├╚ 18:2 ┴ND HE SMOTE ═OAB; AND THE ═OABITES BECAME ─AVID'S SERVANTS, AND BROUGHT GIFTS.
1├╚ 18:3 ┴ND ─AVID SMOTE ╚ADAREZER KING OF ┌OBAH UNTO ╚AMATH, AS HE WENT TO STABLISH HIS DOMINION BY THE RIVER ┼UPHRATES.
1├╚ 18:4 ┴ND ─AVID TOOK FROM HIM A THOUSAND CHARIOTS, AND SEVEN THOUSAND HORSEMEN, AND TWENTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN: ─AVID ALSO HOUGHED ALL THE CHARIOT HORSES, BUT RESERVED OF THEM AN HUNDRED CHARIOTS.
1├╚ 18:5 ┴ND WHEN THE ╙YRIANS OF ─AMASCUS CAME TO HELP ╚ADAREZER KING OF ┌OBAH, ─AVID SLEW OF THE ╙YRIANS TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN.
1├╚ 18:6 ╘HEN ─AVID PUT GARRISONS IN ╙YRIADAMASCUS; AND THE ╙YRIANS BECAME ─AVID'S SERVANTS, AND BROUGHT GIFTS. ╘HUS THE ╠╧╥─ PRESERVED ─AVID WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT.
1├╚ 18:7 ┴ND ─AVID TOOK THE SHIELDS OF GOLD THAT WERE ON THE SERVANTS OF ╚ADAREZER, AND BROUGHT THEM TO ╩ERUSALEM.
1├╚ 18:8 ╠IKEWISE FROM ╘IBHATH, AND FROM ├HUN, CITIES OF ╚ADAREZER, BROUGHT ─AVID VERY MUCH BRASS, WHEREWITH ╙OLOMON MADE THE BRASEN SEA, AND THE PILLARS, AND THE VESSELS OF BRASS.
1├╚ 18:9 ╬OW WHEN ╘OU KING OF ╚AMATH HEARD HOW ─AVID HAD SMITTEN ALL THE HOST OF ╚ADAREZER KING OF ┌OBAH;
1├╚ 18:10 ╚E SENT ╚ADORAM HIS SON TO KING ─AVID, TO ENQUIRE OF HIS WELFARE, AND TO CONGRATULATE HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD FOUGHT AGAINST ╚ADAREZER, AND SMITTEN HIM; (FOR ╚ADAREZER HAD WAR WITH ╘OU;) AND WITH HIM ALL MANNER OF VESSELS OF GOLD AND SILVER AND BRASS.
1├╚ 18:11 ╘HEM ALSO KING ─AVID DEDICATED UNTO THE ╠╧╥─, WITH THE SILVER AND THE GOLD THAT HE BROUGHT FROM ALL THESE NATIONS; FROM ┼DOM, AND FROM ═OAB, AND FROM THE CHILDREN OF ┴MMON, AND FROM THE ╨HILISTINES, AND FROM ┴MALEK.
1├╚ 18:12 ═OREOVER ┴BISHAI THE SON OF ┌ERUIAH SLEW OF THE ┼DOMITES IN THE VALLEY OF SALT EIGHTEEN THOUSAND.
1├╚ 18:13 ┴ND HE PUT GARRISONS IN ┼DOM; AND ALL THE ┼DOMITES BECAME ─AVID'S SERVANTS. ╘HUS THE ╠╧╥─ PRESERVED ─AVID WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT.
1├╚ 18:14 ╙O ─AVID REIGNED OVER ALL ╔SRAEL, AND EXECUTED JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE AMONG ALL HIS PEOPLE.
1├╚ 18:15 ┴ND ╩OAB THE SON OF ┌ERUIAH WAS OVER THE HOST; AND ╩EHOSHAPHAT THE SON OF ┴HILUD, RECORDER.
1├╚ 18:16 ┴ND ┌ADOK THE SON OF ┴HITUB, AND ┴BIMELECH THE SON OF ┴BIATHAR, WERE THE PRIESTS; AND ╙HAVSHA WAS SCRIBE;
1├╚ 18:17 ┴ND ┬ENAIAH THE SON OF ╩EHOIADA WAS OVER THE ├HERETHITES AND THE ╨ELETHITES; AND THE SONS OF ─AVID WERE CHIEF ABOUT THE KING.
