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1 Chronicles 20:3-5
Evangelical Heritage Version
1 Chronicles 20:3-5
Evangelical Heritage Version
3 He brought out the people who were in the city. He put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes.[a] David did the same to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the troops returned to Jerusalem.
War With the Philistines
4 After this, war arose at Gezer[b] with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai,[c] one of the descendants of Rapha the giant,[d] and the Philistines were subdued.
5 There was another battle with the Philistines. Elhanan, the son of Jair, killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam.
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- 1 Chronicles 20:3 The reading of the main Hebrew text is he sawed with a saw, with iron picks and with saws. This could mean that he cut up the city or the people. This verse is translated in harmony with the parallel text in 2 Samuel 12:31.
- 1 Chronicles 20:4 In 2 Samuel 21:18 this battle is located at Gob.
- 1 Chronicles 20:4 Also called Saph in 2 Samuel 21:18
- 1 Chronicles 20:4 Literally the Rephaim. Rapha was the ancestor of a group of very tall men who lived among the Philistines. They are called the Rephaim, and the valley where some of these battles were fought was named after them.
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