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2 Samuel 8:13
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting (note: Heb. his smiting) of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites (note: A few Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Syriac (see also verse 14 and 1 Chronicles 18:12); most Hebrew manuscripts Arameans) in the Valley of Salt.