2 Samuel 8:13

And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

And it happened that all the people were disputing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and provided us escape from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

“You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people; You have kept me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.

He struck down 10,000 of Edom in the Valley of Salt and seized Sela by war and named it Joktheel to this day.

Now it happened afterwards, that David struck the Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines.

You have delivered me from the contentions of the people; You have placed me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.