30 (A)And he took their king’s crown from his head, (which weighed a [a]talent of gold, with precious stones) and it was set on David’s head: and he brought away the spoil of the city in exceedingly great abundance.

31 And he carried away the people that was therein, and put them under [b]saws, and under iron harrows, and under axes of iron, and cast them into the tile-kiln: even thus did he with all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:30 That is: threescore pounds after the weight of the common talent.
  2. 2 Samuel 12:31 Signifying that as they were malicious enemies of God, so he put them to cruel death.

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