and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.
And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, “lest they should tell about us and say, ‘So David has done.’” Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.
Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind. Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all.
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