=3.= _and cut_ them _with saws_] Read probably (compare 2 Samuel xii. 31, Revised Version margin) =and put them with saws=, i.e. put them to work with saws, etc. Compare 2 Chronicles ii. 17, 18; Joshua ix. 21‒23. The implements mentioned here and in the parallel passage of 2 Samuel suggest task-work, not massacre. The Ammonites were reduced to bondage like that of Israel in Egypt. The exceptionally harsh treatment of the Ammonites was doubtless due to the exceptional insults which David’s ambassadors had received from them. A very different spirit towards Ammon is shown in Deuteronomy ii. 19. =4‒8= (= 2 Samuel xxi. 18‒22). PHILISTINE CHAMPIONS SLAIN. This section is the last in which the Chronicler notices David’s wars. It is taken from 2 Samuel xxi., where, however, it is preceded by an account (verses 15‒17) of David’s narrow escape in an encounter with a Philistine. Between the two sections of this chapter the Chronicler omits the account of the rebellions of Absalom and of Sheba, and the story of the Gibeonite vengeance on the house of Saul (2 Samuel xiii. i‒xxi. 14). ⁴And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer¹ with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Sippai, of the sons of the giant²: and they were subdued. ¹ In 2 Samuel xxi. 18, _Gob_. ² Hebrew _Rapha_. According to another reading, _giants_; Hebrew _Rephaim_. =4.= _at Gezer_] See vi. 67, note. In 2 Samuel _at Gob_, but no place called Gob is known. In 2 Samuel v. 25 it is said that David smote the Philistines “from Geba until thou come to Gezer.” _Sippai_] In 2 Samuel “Saph.” _giant_] Hebrew “Rapha”; the same Hebrew word in the plural “Rephaim” is translated “giants” in Deuteronomy ii. 11, Authorized Version These “Rephaim” dwelt east of Jordan. ⁵And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. =5.= _Elhanan ... slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath_] In 2 Samuel xxi. 19, _Elhanan ... the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath_ (Revised Version). The difference between the two sentences in Hebrew is very small, and is due, no doubt, to the Chronicler, or a copyist, who felt that he was making a certain emendation in substituting the brother of Goliath for Goliath himself, since, according to 1 Samuel xvii., Goliath was slain by David before he became king. _slew Lahmi_] read =the Beth-lehemite slew=, etc. ⁶And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six _on each hand_, and six _on each foot_; and he also was born unto the giant¹. ¹ Hebrew _Rapha_. =6.= _a man of great stature_] In 2 Samuel xxi. 20 (Hebrew) _a man of contention_, i.e. a challenger or champion. ⁷And when he defied⁴ Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him. ⁴ Or, _reproached_.