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They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.

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and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.

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11 No one was left alive to come to Gath and tell where he had really been. This happened again and again while he was living among the Philistines.

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11 He did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he thought, “They might inform on us and say, ‘This is what David did.’” And such was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory.

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No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account.
    She was exiled from her land
    as though blown away in a storm from the east.
The Lord did this to purge Israel’s[a] wickedness,
    to take away all her sin.
As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust.
    No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:9 Hebrew Jacob’s. See note on 14:1.

By warfare[a] and exile(A) you contend with her—
    with his fierce blast he drives her out,
    as on a day the east wind(B) blows.
By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned(C) for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:(D)
When he makes all the altar stones(E)
    to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles[b](F) or incense altars(G)
    will be left standing.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. Isaiah 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

10 Human defiance only enhances your glory,
    for you use it as a weapon.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 76:10 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

10 Surely your wrath against mankind brings you praise,(A)
    and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 76:10 Or Surely the wrath of mankind brings you praise, / and with the remainder of wrath you arm yourself

11 I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come.
    Here your proud waves must stop!’

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11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;(A)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?(B)

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19 Nothing was missing: small or great, son or daughter, nor anything else that had been taken. David brought everything back.

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19 Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.

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