(A)And David took the crown of their king from his head. He found that it weighed a talent[a] of gold, and in it was a precious stone. And it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 20:2 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

11 These also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from (A)Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.

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30 And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent[a] of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount. 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[b] 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 12:30 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
  2. 2 Samuel 12:31 Hebrew pass through

11 (A)These also King David dedicated to the Lord, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued, 12 from Edom, (B)Moab, (C)the Ammonites, (D)the Philistines, (E)Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of (F)Zobah.

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