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NASB | 1 Chronicles 20:3 He brought out the people who were in it, and cut them with saws and with sharp instruments and with axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Chronicles 20:3 He brought out the people who were in it, and put them [to work] with saws, iron picks, and axes. David dealt in this way with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. |
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Bible Note: Justme, I ain't all that intelligent, believe you me. If my dog Flinky could speak, he'd spout reams of all the dopiness he's seen me do. My wife even says, "This is my husband, I can't help it." Anyway, I go to the ESV for comparison and am not drawn to it in any deeper way. I actually like the lumpy grits style of NASB over the crystaline, studied brevity of the ESV. The NASB95 has punctuation errors (2 Chron 9.8 lacks a comma after "Israel"); is occasionally ungrammatical (James 3.4 desperately needs "they" after "winds" to make it a complete sentence); and can do violence to a good psalm (Psalm 1 is a prime example), but it has a studious, workmanlike earnestness; it tries hard to be what it is, and that appeals to me. Having said all that, I find the NKJV a better read in the OT. I also like its unique way of acknowledging CT texts variants in the margins of the NT, something no other translation does, or might dare to do. It is also "literal". I agree with you about the NRSV. Colin. |