1 Chronicles 18:13
Good News Translation
He set up military camps throughout Edom, and the people there became King David's subjects. The LORD made David victorious everywhere.

New Revised Standard Version
He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became subject to David. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

Contemporary English Version
Then he stationed troops in Edom, and the people there had to accept David as their ruler. Everywhere David went, the LORD gave him victory in war.

New American Bible
He set up garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. Thus the LORD brought David victory in all his undertakings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom should serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all things to which he went.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom should serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all things to which he went.

garrisons

1 Chronicles 18:6 And he put a garrison in Damascus, that Syria also should serve him, and bring gifts. And the Lord assisted him in all things to which he went.

1 Samuel 10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city, thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place, with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and they shall be prophesying.

1 Samuel 13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines which was in Gabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the trumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear.

1 Samuel 14:1 Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder place. But he told not this to his father.

2 Samuel 7:14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

2 Samuel 23:14 And David was then in a hold: and there was a garrison of the Philistines then in Bethlehem.

2 Corinthians 11:32 At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me.

all the Edomites

Genesis 25:23 And he answering, said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

Genesis 27:29,37,40 And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings. . . .

Numbers 24:18 And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully.

Thus the Lord

1 Chronicles 18:6 And he put a garrison in Damascus, that Syria also should serve him, and bring gifts. And the Lord assisted him in all things to which he went.

Psalm 18:48-50 And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me. . . .

Psalm 121:7 The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

Psalm 144:10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

Context
David's Triumphs
12And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of the Edomites in the vale of the saltpits, eighteen thousand: 13And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom should serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all things to which he went.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:15
For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of the army, was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in Edom,

1 Chronicles 18:12
And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of the Edomites in the vale of the saltpits, eighteen thousand:

1 Chronicles 18:14
So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.

1 Chronicles 18:12
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