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31 He also brought the people out from it and made them work with saws, with iron picks and axes, and at brickmaking. He did the same to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the troops returned to Jerusalem.

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31 and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking.[a] David did this to all the Ammonite(A) towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

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  1. 2 Samuel 12:31 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.