Darby's translation notes (1890)
1 Chronicles 20:3
20:3 saws. (b-24) Others read 'axes,' as 2 Samuel 12:31 .
20:3 saws. (b-24) Others read 'axes,' as 2 Samuel 12:31 .
Verse 1 Chronicles 20:3. _HE BROUGHT OUT THE PEOPLE_] See this transaction particularly explained in the notes on the parallel places, 2 Samuel 12:30-10....
CHAPTER 20 JOAB AND DAVID TAKE RABBAH _ 1. Rabbah destroyed (1 Chronicles 20:1)_ 2. The Philistine giants slain (1 Chronicles 20:4) Rabbah was the capital of Ammon (Deuteronomy 3:11
THE AMMONITES SUBDUED (see notes on 2 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:30 f.). 1 CHRONICLES 20:4. INCIDENTS DURING THE PHILISTINE WAR (see notes on...
CUT. Hebrew. _sur._ Occurs only here; the meaning "cut" is arbitrary. It must be explained by 2 Samuel 12:31, where it is _sum,_ and is rendered "put". "appointed them [to work] with". See notes there...
_and cut_them _with saws_ Read (cp. 2 Samuel 12:31, R.V. mg.) AND PUT THEM WITH SAWS, i.e. put them to work with saws, etc. Cp. 2 Chronicles 2:17-18; Joshua 9:21-23. The implements mentioned here
1 Chronicles 20:1-3 (2 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:26-31). The Subjugation of Ammon The account of the siege of Rabbah is given more shortly in Chron. than in 2 Sam. From the latter we learn that the Ar...
_JOAB TAKES THE CITY OF RABBAH. THE PHILISTINES ARE THREE TIMES OVERCOME BY DAVID AND HIS SERVANTS._ _Before Christ 1037._ REFLECTIONS.—While Joab conquered the country of the Ammonites, David staye...
12. WARS WITH RABBAH AND THE PHILISTINES (1 Chronicles 20:1-8) 1 Chronicles 20:1. And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led for...
_AND HE BROUGHT OUT THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN IT, AND CUT THEM WITH SAWS, AND WITH HARROWS OF IRON, AND WITH AXES. EVEN SO DEALT DAVID WITH ALL THE CITIES OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON. AND DAVID AND ALL THE...
THE SIEGE OF RABBAH. THE SLAUGHTER OF THREE PHILISTINE GIANTS This chapter corresponds, with some unimportant differences, to several distinct sections in 2 S, viz. 2 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:26; 2 Sa...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 20 Battles against the *Philistines –...
AND HE BROUGHT. — Better, _“And the people that were in it he brought out, and sawed with the saw, and with the iron threshing-drags_ (Isaiah 41:15), _and with the axes.”_ SAWED. — The Hebrew is an o...
וְ אֶת ־הָ עָ֨ם אֲשֶׁר ־בָּ֜הּ הֹוצִ֗יא
Joab's conquest of the children of Ammon was complete. They were despoiled of their possessions and reduced to servitude. There is practically no doubt that this is the meaning of the story as it is w...
Harrows. Hebrew, "cut them with saws, and with harrows; (Haydock) or, rollers of iron, and with saws." But some other term was probably used, as we find saws before. (Calmet) --- Protestants have "axe...
The Reader will recollect the circumstances which are here related have been before noticed, and with more particulars in 2 Samuel 11:1 and 2 Samuel 12:1. I refer therefore to the account there given....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18, 19, AND 20. In Chapter s 18, 19 and 20 David, already delivered from all internal conflict in Israel, triumphs over the heathen, and spreads the glory of...
See Gill "1Ch 20:1"....
And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and [there were] precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceedin...
_A.M. 2969. B.C. 1035._ A repetition of David's wars with the Ammonites, and the taking of Rabbah, 1 Chronicles 20:1; with the giants of the Philistines, 1 Chronicles 20:4. NOTES ON CHAPTER 20....
1 Rabbah is besieged by Ioab, spoiled by Dauid, and the people thereof tortured. 4 Three giants are slaine in three seuerall ouerthrowes of the Philistines. 1 AND [NOTE: 2 Samuel 11:1.] it came to pa...
THE CITY OF RABBAH TAKEN...
And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws and with harrows of iron, threshing carts, AND WITH AXES, probably scythelike cutting instruments. The method of dealing with vanq...
No text from Poole on this verse....
1 Chronicles 20:3 out H3318 (H8689) people H5971 work H7787 (H8799) saws H4050 iron H1270 picks H2757 axes
CONTENTS: Joab and David take Rabbah. War with Philistines. CHARACTERS: David, Joab, Sibbechai, Sippai, Jonathan, Elhanan. CONCLUSION: The power and pride of great men against us need not terrify us...
1 Chronicles 20:1. _Joab besieged Rabbah._ This is related more at large in 2 Samuel 12. David humanely left Shobi on the throne, after putting the rebel chiefs to death. 1 Chronicles 20:7. When he de...
_And it came to pass, that after the year was expired._ THE CAPTURE OF RABBAH From its capture and punishment of its people we learn-- I. That in spiritual warfare there must be no cessation. Rest...
1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 CHRONICLES 20:1 The Chronicler omits 2 Samuel 12:27, Joab’s summons to David to come to Rabbah....
CRITICAL NOTES.] This extract from the ancient records tells of Rabbah taken (1 Chronicles 20:1); and three sons of the giant of Gath slain (1 Chronicles 20:4). It covers 2 Samuel 11-21. [_Murphy_]....
EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter are all to be found in the work of Samuel, but woven in, in very different places. The cause of the first considerable difference of this kind is in connection...
By Chuck Smith And it came to pass, after the year was expired, and the time that the kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and he wasted the country of the children of Ammon,...
1 Chronicles 19:2; 1 Kings 9:21; Exodus 1:14; Joshua 9:23; Judges 8:16