1 Chronicles 20:3 — He brought out the people who were in it, and put them [to work] with saws, iro… — AMP | maBible
Read 1 Chronicles 20:3 (Amplified Bible) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: 1 Chronicles 20.3, 1 Chronicles 20v3, 1Ch. 20:3. He brought out the people who were in it, and put them [to work] with saws, iron picks, and axes. David dealt in this way with all the Ammonite cities. Th…
3 He brought out the people who were in it, and put them [to work] with saws, iron picks, and axes. David dealt in this way with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Notes and references
MT reads cut with saws, but the parallel passage (2 Sam 12:31) reads put them to [work with] the saws, which can mean “put to work.” Due to the brutality implied by the reading cut, most expositors prefer to reject it as an early scribal error for put, which is possible because the two Hebrew verb…