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He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
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The Reason for a Harsh Judgment
Commentators are united on the severity of David's actions, executing two-thirds of the Moabite prisoners. They note this is a shocking reversal from David's previously friendly relations with Moab. Scholars offer two main reasons for this harshness: a Jewish tradition that the Moabites murdered David's parents, whom he had entrusted to them, or that Moab treacherously attacked Israel while David was fighting the Syrians.
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2 Samuel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
David took great numbers of Moabites as prisoners of war. He made them lie down on the ground, divided them by a measuring line into three parts, p…
19th Century
Anglican
He smote Moab. —David’s former friendly relations with Moab (probably connected with his own descent from Ruth) are mentioned in […
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he smote Moab He next went against that, and invaded it, the people of it being always troublesome and distressi…
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