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1 Chronicles 20:2-4
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1 Chronicles 20:2-4
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2 When David arrived on the scene, he removed the crown from the head of King Milcom[a] of Rabbah and placed it upon his own head. It was made of gold inlaid with gems and weighed seventy-five pounds! David also took great amounts of plunder from the city. 3 He drove the people from the city and set them to work with saws,[b] iron picks, and axes, as was his custom with all the conquered Ammonite peoples. Then David and all his army returned to Jerusalem.
4 The next war was against the Philistines again, at Gezer. But Sibbecai, a man from Hushath, killed one of the sons of the giant, Sippai, and so the Philistines surrendered.
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- 1 Chronicles 20:2 Milcom, implied, see 1 Kings 11:5.
- 1 Chronicles 20:3 He . . . set them to work with saws, literally “He conducted them to the saw.” Whether this means that he made them labor with saws or that he sawed them to pieces is uncertain.
1 Chronicles 20:2-4
New International Version
1 Chronicles 20:2-4
New International Version
2 David took the crown from the head of their king[a]—its weight was found to be a talent[b] of gold, and it was set with precious stones—and it was placed on David’s head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city 3 and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes.(A) David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
War With the Philistines(B)
4 In the course of time, war broke out with the Philistines, at Gezer.(C) At that time Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaites,(D) and the Philistines were subjugated.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 20:2 Or of Milkom, that is, Molek
- 1 Chronicles 20:2 That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms
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