¹⁵ and it cometh to pass, in David's being with Edom, in the going up of Joab head of the host to bury the slain, that he smiteth every male in Edom --

¹⁴ and he putteth in Edom garrisons -- in all Edom he hath put garrisons, and all Edom are servants to David; and Jehovah saveth David whithersoever he hath gone.

¹² And Abishai son of Zeruiah hath smitten Edom in the valley of salt -- eighteen thousand,

¹³ and he putteth in Edom garrisons, and all the Edomites are servants to David; and Jehovah saveth David whithersoever he hath gone.

¹³ and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.

² I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, `In what hast Thou loved us?'

³ Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

¹⁰ Who doth bring me in to the fenced city? Who hath led me unto Edom?

¹ To the Overseer. -- `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

¹⁷ `And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

¹⁸ And Edom hath been a possession, And Seir hath been a possession, `for' its enemies, And Israel is doing valiantly;

¹⁹ And `one' doth rule out of Jacob, And hath destroyed a remnant from Ar.'

⁴⁰ and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'

²³ And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations `are' in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the `one' people than the `other' people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'