1 Chronicles 20:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
3 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.
Exploits against the Philistines
4 After this, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants; and the Philistines were subdued. 5 Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
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- 1 Chronicles 20:3 Compare 2 Sam 12.31: Heb and he sawed
- 1 Chronicles 20:3 Compare 2 Sam 12.31: Heb saws
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