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31 He brought out the people who were in it and set them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes or sent them to the brickworks. Thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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

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  1. 20.3 Heb and he sawed
  2. 20.3 Heb saws

Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Damascus,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.(A)

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  1. 1.3 Heb cause it to return

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

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He also defeated the Moabites and, making them lie down on the ground, measured them off with a cord; he measured two lengths of cord for those who were to be put to death and one length[a] for those who were to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.(A)

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  1. 8.2 Heb one full length