2 Samuel 8:2

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Tambm feriu os moabitas, e os mediu com cordel, fazendo-os deitar por terra, e os mediu com dois cordis para os matar, e com um cordel inteiro para os deixar em vida; ficaram, assim, os moabitas por servos de Davi, trazendo presentes.

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A Biblia Sagrada
Tambm derrotou os moabitas, e os mediu com cordel, fazendo-os deitar por terra; e os mediu com dois cordis para os matar, e com um cordel inteiro para os deixar com vida. Ficaram assim os moabitas por servos de Davi, pagando-lhe tributos.

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Tambm derrotou os moabitas; f-los deitar em terra e os mediu: duas vezes um cordel, para os matar; uma vez um cordel, para os deixar com vida. Assim, ficaram os moabitas por servos de Davi e lhe pagavam tributo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he smote: Numbers 24:17, Judges 3:29, Judges 3:30, 1 Samuel 14:47, Psalms 60:8, Psalms 83:6, Psalms 108:9

measured: 2 Samuel 12:31

And so: 2 Samuel 8:6, 2 Samuel 8:12-14, 2 Kings 1:1, 2 Kings 3:4-27, 1 Chronicles 18:2

brought gifts: 1 Samuel 10:27, 2 Chronicles 26:8, Psalms 72:10, Psalms 72:11, Isaiah 36:16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:6 - Thou shalt 2 Samuel 22:38 - General 1 Kings 10:25 - every man 2 Kings 3:25 - beat down 2 Kings 17:3 - presents 2 Chronicles 17:11 - brought Psalms 68:30 - every Isaiah 16:1 - the lamb Isaiah 34:11 - stretch Lamentations 2:8 - stretched Ezekiel 24:6 - let no Amos 7:7 - a wall Micah 1:14 - give

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he smote Moab,.... He next went against that, and invaded it, the people of it being always troublesome and distressing to the children of Israel; and though the king of it had shown some favour to David, yet it was when he considered him as an enemy to Saul, and Saul to him; but things having taken a different turn, his and his people's enmity against David and his people appeared; wherefore he went and fought them, and made them his subjects, whereby was fulfilled the prophecy of Balaam, Numbers 24:17; as it referred to David:

and measured them with a line: either their country and fields, to distribute among his people, or rather the soldiers he took prisoners; which, as Procopius Gazaeus says, were so numerous that they could not be told, and therefore they were ordered to lie prostrate on the ground, and they were measured with a line, as it follows:

casting them down to the ground; or ordering them to lie down; though some understand this of casting down their cities, towers, and strong holds, and levelling them with the ground:

even with two lines measured he; with one, so it may be supplied, as the Vulgate Latin,

to put to death, and with one full line, to keep alive; that is, in measuring them with his lines, he divided them into two parts, one he put to death, and the other, the full line, which contained the most, he saved alive; though it seems according to our version, and so most understand it, that David slew two thirds, and saved one, and so Josephus e. This must be understood of the army of the Moabites that fell into his hands, so Josephus, who persisted and refused to submit, not of all the inhabitants of the land. The Jews say f, that the reason of this severe treatment of them was because they slew the father, and mother and brethren of David, whom he left to the care and custody of the king of Moab, when he fled from Saul, see 1 Samuel 22:3; since after that they are heard no more of; though it should rather be imputed to their enmity against the people of Israel. The phrase of "meting out the valley of Succoth" seems to be an allusion to this fact, Psalms 60:6, the psalm being written on occasion of the victories here related:

and [so] the Moabites became David's servants; the inhabitants of the land who were left in it, perhaps that part of the soldiers preserved alive were brought home captives:

[and] brought gifts; paid a yearly tribute to King David, as they afterwards did to Solomon and to Rehoboam, until the revolt of the ten tribes, and then they paid it unto the kings of Israel, to the times of Ahab, see 2 Kings 3:4, though these gifts may be distinct from, and besides the tribute paid, which is supposed in their being servants, see 2 Chronicles 17:11. Thus the Arabians g carried gifts to the king of Persia besides tribute.

e Antiqu. l. 7. c. 5. sect. 1. f Bemidbar Rabba, l. 14. fol. 212. 1. g Herodot. Thalia, sive, l. 3. c. 97.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

David took great numbers of the Moabites prisoners of war, and made them lie down on the ground, and then divided them by a measuring line into three parts, putting two-thirds to death, and saving alive one-third. The cause of the war with the Moabites, who had been very friendly with David 1 Samuel 22:3-4, and of this severe treatment, is not known. But it seems likely, from the tone of Psalms 60:1-12 that David had met with some temporary reverse in his Syrian wars, and that the Moabites and Edomites had treacherously taken advantage of it, and perhaps tried to cut off his retreat.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 8:2. And measured them with a line - even with two lines — It has been generally conjectured that David, after he had conquered Moab, consigned two-thirds of the inhabitants to the sword; but I think the text will bear a meaning much more reputable to that king. The first clause of the verse seems to determine the sense; he measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground-to put to death, and with one line to keep alive. Death seems here to be referred to the cities by way of metaphor; and, from this view of the subject we may conclude that two-thirds of the cities, that is, the strong places of Moab, were erased; and not having strong places to trust to, the text adds, So the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts, i.e., were obliged to pay tribute. The word line may mean the same here as our rod, i.e., the instrument by which land is measured. There are various opinions on this verse, with which I shall not trouble the reader. Much may be seen in Calmet and Dodd.