2 Samuel 12:31

2 Samuel 12:31

29 So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, fought against it, and took it.

30 ^aThen he took their king’s crown from his head. Its weight was a talent of gold, with precious stones. And it was set on David’s head. Also he brought out the¹ spoil of the city in great abundance.

31 And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over to the brick works. So he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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he brought forth the people . . . and put them under saws, etc.—This excessive severity and employment of tortures, which the Hebrews on no other occasion are recorded to have practised, was an act of retributive justice on a people who were infamous for their cruelties (I Samuel 11:2; Amos 1:13).

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