BRAGADAYJAH 139

Monday, April 18, 2016

BRAGADAYJAH 940

BRAGADAYJAH 940
Joab Defeated the Ammonites
In the meantime Joab continued to fight against Rabbah of the children of Ammon and eventually took the royal city. And Joab sent messengers to David and told him that he had taken the town and suggested he David gather the rest of Israel together and encamp against the city and take it, lest he took it himself and it be called by his name.  And David gathered the people together and fought against Rabbah and took it. And he took the king’s crown from off his head the weight of which was a talent of gold with its precious stones and it was set on David’s head; and he took the spoils of the city in great abundance. And David took the people that inhabited it and caused them to be put under saws and under harrows of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln and so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon, before he returned to Jerusalem along with all the people. A clearer translation of what David did to the Ammonites is to be found in the book of Chronicles chapter 20 verse 3.  It reads “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 on it, and it was set on David’s head.”(a parallel account) “And he brought out the people that were in it and cut them with saws and with harrows of iron and with axes.”  


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