⁶ As long as you live, you must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.

²³ About the same time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. ²⁴ Furthermore, half their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of some other people and could not speak the language of Judah at all. ²⁵ So I confronted them and called down curses on them. I beat some of them and pulled out their hair. I made them swear in the name of God that they would not let their children intermarry with the pagan people of the land.

³¹ He also made slaves of the people of Rabbah and forced them to labor with^[a] saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to work in the brick kilns.^[b] That is how he dealt with the people of all the Ammonite towns. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

² David also conquered the land of Moab. He made the people lie down on the ground in a row, and he measured them off in groups with a length of rope. He measured off two groups to be executed for every one group to be spared. The Moabites who were spared became David’s subjects and paid him tribute money.