2Sa 12:31, 1Ch 20:3 | TSK | STEP | and put them.Rather, as the particle [b] frequently signifies, "And he put them to saws, and to harrows, and to axes," etc., as we say, to put a person to the plough, to the anvil, to the last, etc. Also.

2 Samuel 12:31

and put them.Rather, as the particle [b] frequently signifies, "And he put them to saws, and to harrows, and to axes," etc., as we say, to put a person to the plough, to the anvil, to the last, etc.

1Ch 20:3

Also.

8:2; Ps 21:8,9; Am 1:3

1 Chronicles 20:3

And he.

19:2-5; Ps 21:8,9

and cut.Instead of {wyyasar,} "and he cut," the parallel passage is {wyyasem,} "and he put them;" which is also the reading here of seven MSS. collated by Dr. Kennicott. Sawing asunder, etc., of human beings, have no more place in the text, than they had in David's conduct towards the Ammonites.

with saws.

Ex 1:14; Jos 9:23; Jud 8:6,7,16,17; 1Ki 9:21