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NASB | 1 Chronicles 20:1 Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Chronicles 20:1 Then it happened at the end of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged and devastated the land of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem [with Bathsheba]. Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it. [2 Sam 12:24-29] |
Bible Question (short): Did David chop and roast the Amonites? |
Question (full): Both here and in 2 Sam 20.31, David is either "cutting them with" or "putting them to" various iron objects. In the former verse these are additionally either roasted or set to work in the brick kilns. Wow! The NASB and KJV have the ugly variation; the NKJV and NIV the gentle one, in which the inhabitants are disenfranchised but efficiently enslaved. A note in the NKJV shows the LXX as the source for the nastier version. This appears to be a fresh topic for this forum. I've tried to find studies on this; they are spare and rare. Pastor Chuck Smith avoids commentary on these verses altogether. God called David "a bloody man", but the bloodier take on these verses doesn't make sense to me: Jeffrey Dahmer, maybe, but King David? Kind of perverse, even for that guy and that time. Any clues on the nature of this discrepancy? |
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