“After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 18 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.