Primo libro delle Cronache 20

DIODATI	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Or avvenne che, in capo dell’anno, al tempo che i re sogliono uscire alla guerra, Ioab condusse fuori l’esercito, e guastò il paese de’ figliuoli di Ammon; poi venne, e pose l’assedio a Rabba; ma Davide dimorò in Gerusalemme; e Ioab percosse Rabba, e la disfece.	1 Now it happened that, after the course of a year, in the time when kings usually go forth to war, Joab gathered an army with experienced soldiers, and he laid waste to the land of the sons of Ammon. And he continued on and besieged Rabbah. But David was staying in Jerusalem when Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it.
2 E Davide prese la corona di Malcam d’in su la testa di esso, e trovò che pesava un talento d’oro, e vi erano delle pietre preziose; e fu posta sopra il capo di Davide. Egli ne portò eziandio le spoglie della città, ch’erano in grandissima quantità.	2 Then David took the crown of Milcom from his head, and he found in it the weight of one talent of gold, and very precious gems. And he made for himself a diadem from it. Also, he took the best spoils of the city, which were very many.
3 E trasse fuori il popolo, e lo mise in pezzi con seghe, e con trebbie di ferro, e con mannaie. E così fece Davide a tutte le città de’ figliuoli di Ammon. Poi se ne ritornò, con tutto il popolo, in Gerusalemme	3 Then he led away the people who were in it. And he caused plows, and sleds, and iron chariots to go over them, so much so that they were cut apart and crushed. So did David treat all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And he returned with all his people to Jerusalem.
4 DOPO queste cose, avvenne che si mosse guerra contro a’ Filistei, in Ghezer. Allora Sibbecai Hussatita percosse Sippai, ch’era della progenie di Rafa; ed i Filistei furono abbassati.	4 After these things, a war was begun at Gezer against the Philistines, in which Sibbecai the Hushathite struck Sippai from the race of the Rephaim, and he humbled them.
5 Vi fu ancora un’altra guerra contro a’ Filistei, nella quale Elhanan, figliuolo di Iair, percosse Lachmi, fratello di Goliat, Ghitteo, l’asta della cui lancia era come un subbio di tessitore.	5 Also, another war was undertaken against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus, a son of the forest, a Bethlehemite, struck the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the wood of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
6 Vi fu ancora un’altra guerra in Gat, dove si trovò un uomo di grande statura, il quale aveva sei dita in ciascuna mano, ed in ciascun piè; sì ch’erano in tutto ventiquattro; ed era anch’egli della progenie di Rafa.	6 Then too, another war occurred in Gath, in which there was a very tall man, having six digits, that is, all together twenty-four. This man too was born from the stock of the Rephaim.
7 Ed egli schernì Israele; ma Gionatan, figliuolo di Sima, fratello di Davide, lo percosse.	7 He blasphemed Israel. And Jonathan, the son of Shimea, the brother of David, struck him down. These were the sons of the Rephaim in Gath, who fell by the hand of David and his servants.
8 Questi nacquero in Gat, della schiatta di Rafa, e furono morti per mano di Davide, e per mano de’ suoi servitori