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THE SECOND BOOK OF
SAMUEL
OTHERWISE CALLED
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS
CHAPTER 8
  2 And he smote aMoab, and bmeasured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the cMoabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.

Footnotes
2a
Num. 24: 17.
  17 I shall see him, but anot now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a bStar out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of cMoab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
b
IE, apparently, determined their size and put the taller, stronger to death.
c
2 Kgs. 1: 1.
  1 Then aMoab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2 Kgs. 3: 5.
  5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of aMoab brebelled against the king of Israel.