1 Beresosɛm 20
1 Asusow bere, afe mu bere a ahemfo kɔ ɔko no, Yoab dii Israel asraafo anim, kɔtow hyɛɛ Amonfo nkurow ne nkuraa so, dii wɔn so nkonim. Akodi no mu no, wotuaa Raba kuropɔn no, sɛee no. Saa bere no na Dawid te akyi wɔ Yerusalem.
And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the same season of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that Joab led out the power of the army, and destroyed the country of the children of 'Ammon, and he came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained behind at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and pulled it down.
2 Bere a Dawid duu Raba no, otuu ɔhene no ahenkyɛw, na wɔde hyɛɛ Dawid. Sikakɔkɔɔ na wɔde yɛɛ ahenkyɛw no na wɔde aboɔdemmo abobɔ mu. Na emu duru bɛyɛ kilogram aduasa anan. Dawid faa asade bebree fii kurow no mu.
And David took the crown of Malkam from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and thereon a precious stone; and it was set on the head of David: and the booty of the city he brought out in great abundance.
3 Ɔde Rabafo no yɛɛ nkoa, hyɛɛ wɔn ma wɔde ɔwan, famtunnade ne mmonnua yɛɛ adwuma. Saa ara nso na ɔyɛɛ nnipa a wɔwɔ Amon nkuropɔn nyinaa so. Na Dawid ne nʼakofo san kɔɔ Yerusalem.
And the people that were therein he brought forward, and cut them with saws, and with iron threshing-wagons, and with axes; and thus did David unto all the cities of the children of 'Ammon; and David returned then with all the people unto Jerusalem.
4 Eyi akyi, ɔko sii wɔne Filistifo ntam wɔ Geser. Ɔko no mu no, Sibekai a ofi Husa kum Sipai a ɔyɛ abran no aseni ma wɔkaa Filistifo no hyɛe.
And it came to pass after this, that there arose a battle at Gezer with the Philistines: then smote Sibbechai the Chushathite Sippai, one of the children of the Rapha; and they were humbled.
5 Ɔko foforo bi a wɔne Filistifo koe no mu no, Yair babarima Elhanan kum Gatni Goliat nuabarima Lahmi. Na Lahmi peaw nsa mu pipiripi te sɛ ntamanwemfo abaa.
And there was again a battle with the Philistines, when Elchanan the son of Yair smote Lachmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
6 Ɔko foforo bi nso a wɔne Filistifo koe wɔ Gat no, ɔbran bi a ɔyɛ abran asefo no bi a ɔyɛ nsansia yɛ nansia wɔ ne nsa ne ne nan biara so no
And there was again a battle at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes were six on each [hand and foot], four and twenty [in all]; and he also was born to the Rapha.
7 buu Israel animtiaa, twitwaa mpoa. Na Dawid nuabarima Simea babarima Yonatan kum no.
And he defied Israel; but Jonathan the son of Shim'a the brother of David smote him.
8 Na saa Filistifo yi yɛ Gat abran no asefo nanso Dawid ne nʼakofo kunkum wɔn.
These were born unto the Rapha in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
