2Sa 8:2, 12:31, Neh 4:2 | ESV | STEP | And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line , making them lie down on the ground . Two lines he measured to be put to death , and one full line to be spared . And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute .

2 Samuel 8:2

2 ^aAnd he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites ^bbecame servants to David and ^cbrought tribute.

2 Samuel 12:31

31 And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at ^{▼▼Hebrew pass through} the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 4:2

2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of ^eSamaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? ^{▼▼Or Will they commit themselves to God?} Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”