Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
cut them with saws, etc.—The Hebrew word, "cut them," is, with the difference of the final letter, the same as that rendered "put them," in the parallel passage of Samuel [II Samuel 12:31]; and many consider that putting them to saws, axes, and so forth, means nothing more than that David condemned the inhabitants of Rabbah to hard and penal servitude.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Chronicles 20:3:
1 Chronicles 20:1
1 Chronicles 20:1
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