1 Chronicles 18:1

1 Chronicles 18:1-13 (2 Samuel 8:1-14). A Summary of David's Foreign Wars

1. after this The phrase is adopted from 2 Samuel 8:1 and probably came originally from a still earlier book of annals, in which the context may have been different. We cannot therefore say at what period of David's reign the conquest of Gath took place.

took Gath and her towns In 2 Samuel 8:1, took the bridle of themother city(R.V.), a poetical expression which the Chronicler has turned into prose.