1st Chronicles Chapter 18 verse 2 Holy Bible
And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
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And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.
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And he smote the Moabites; and the Moabites became David's servants, [and] brought gifts.
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And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
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And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
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He struck Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
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and he smiteth Moab, and the Moabites are servants to David, bringing a present.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Brought gifts; i.e. in the light of tribute and of acknowledgment of subjection. There are curious additions to this passage in the parallel place, telling the punishment inflicted on Moab: "He smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground [i.e. causing them to lie prostrate]; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive." This appears to mean that he put to death two parts of them, and kept the third part alive. The reason of this deliberate and severe punishment is not stated. Once David and the Moabites had been on very different terms (1 Samuel 22:3, 4; but see also Psalm 60:8).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Much abridged, as compared with Samuel. After the words "he smote Moab," we read there of a partial massacre of the conquered. The emission is scarcely due to any unfair bias on the part of the chronicler. Indeed, as a Jew, possessed with all the national exclusiveness and hatred of the aliens who always misunderstood and sometimes cruelly oppressed his people, he was not likely to regard the slaughter of captive Moabites from a modern point of view. (Comp. Ezra 6:21; Ezra 6:9-10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 2:4; Nehemiah 2:6; Nehemiah 2:13) Besides, he has related the cruel treatment of the Ammonite prisoners (1Chronicles 20:3). (See the prophecy, Numbers 24:17.) . . .