1 Chronicles 18:2
◄  1 Chronicles 18:2  ►
New International Version (©2011)
David also defeated the Moabites, and they became subject to him and brought him tribute.

New Living Translation (©2007)
David also conquered the land of Moab, and the Moabites who were spared became David's subjects and paid him tribute money.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David, bringing tribute.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He also defeated the Moabites, and they became David's subjects and brought tribute.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He also conquered Moab, placing them in servitude and making them pay tribute.

NET Bible (©2006)
He defeated the Moabites; the Moabites became David's subjects and brought tribute.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He also defeated Moab, and the Moabites became David's subjects and paid taxes [to him].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he defeated Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought tribute.

American King James Version
And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

American Standard Version
And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites were made David's servants, and brought him gifts.

Darby Bible Translation
And he smote the Moabites; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

English Revised Version
And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought presents.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

World English Bible
He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

Young's Literal Translation
and he smiteth Moab, and the Moabites are servants to David, bringing a present.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:1-17 David's victories. - This chapter is the same as 2Sa 8. Our good fight of faith, under the Captain of our salvation, will end in everlasting triumph and peace. The happiness of Israel, through David's victories, and just government, faintly shadowed forth the happiness of the redeemed in the realms above.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - Brought gifts; i.e. in the light of tribute and of acknowledgment of subjection. There are curious additions to this passage in the parallel place, telling the punishment inflicted on Moab: "He smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground [i.e. causing them to lie prostrate]; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive." This appears to mean that he put to death two parts of them, and kept the third part alive. The reason of this deliberate and severe punishment is not stated. Once David and the Moabites had been on very different terms (1 Samuel 22:3, 4; but see also Psalm 60:8).

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. he smote Moab—The terrible severities by which David's conquest of that people was marked, and the probable reason of their being subjected to such a dreadful retribution, are narrated (2Sa 8:2).

the Moabites … brought gifts—that is, became tributary to Israel.

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David's Triumphs
1Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines. 2And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts. 3And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates. …

1 Chronicles 18:1 In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its surrounding villages from the control of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 18:3 Moreover, David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, in the vicinity of Hamath, when he went to set up his monument at the Euphrates River.