31 And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at[a] the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:31 Hebrew pass through

And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor[a] (A)with saws and iron picks and axes.[b] And thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 20:3 Compare 2 Samuel 12:31; Hebrew he sawed
  2. 1 Chronicles 20:3 Compare 2 Samuel 12:31; Hebrew saws

Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Damascus,
    and for four, (C)I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed (D)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13

Your hand will (A)find out all your enemies;
    your right hand will find out those who hate you.
You will make them as (B)a blazing oven
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his (C)wrath,
    and (D)fire will consume them.

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(A)And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites (B)became servants to David and (C)brought tribute.

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