1 Chronicles 20
1 Rabbah is besieged by Joab, spoiled by David, and the people thereof tortured.
4 Three giants are slain in three several overthrows of the Philistines.
time <06256> [A.M. 2969. B.C. 1035. An. Ex. Is. 456. And it came.]
spring .... time <08141 08666 06256> [after the year was expired. Heb. at the return of the year.]
devastated <07843> [wasted.]
Rabbah ......... Rabbah <07237> [Rabbah.]
Joab ........................ Joab defeated <05221 03097> [Joab smote.]
David ............... weight .............. He <04948 01732> [it. Heb. the weight of it. and he brought.]
removed <03318> [And he.]
made them do hard labor <07787> [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.
saws ..... axes <04050> [with saws.]
there was <05975> [A.M. 2986. B.C. 1018. An. Ex. Is. 473. there arose. or, there continued. Heb. there stood.]
Gezer <01507> [Gezer. or, Gob.]
Sibbekai <05444> [Sibbechai.]
Sippai <05598> [Sippai.]
[Saph. the giant. or, Rapha.]
Jair <03265> [Jair.]
[Jaare-oregim. Goliath.]
large <04060> [of great stature. Heb. of measure.]
descendant ... Rapha <07497 03205> [the son of the giant. Heb. born to the giant. or Rapha.]
taunted <02778> [defied. or, reproached.]
Shimea <08092> [Shimea.]
[Shimma.]
[Shammah.]
killed <05307> [they fell.]
