17 from Mount Haʹlak,+ which goes up to Seʹir,+ and as far as Baʹal-gad+ in the valley plain of Lebʹa·non at the base of Mount Herʹmon,+ and he captured all their kings and went striking them and putting them to death.+

20 For it proved to be Jehovah’s course to let their hearts become stubborn+ so as to declare war against Israel, in order that he might devote them to destruction, that they might come to have no favorable consideration,+ but in order that he might annihilate them, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.+

2 And he went on to strike down the Moʹab·ites+ and measure them with a line, making them lie down* on the earth, that he might measure two lines to put them to death, and a full line to preserve them alive;+ and the Moʹab·ites came to be David’s servants+ to carry tribute.*+