² And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.

¹¹ Not one living man or woman did David ever take back with him to Gath, fearing that they might give an account of what had taken place, and say, This is what David did, and so has he been doing all the time while he has been living in the land of the Philistines.

¹⁹ There was no loss of anything, small or great, sons or daughters or goods or anything which they had taken away: David got it all back.

¹¹ And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

¹⁰ The ... will give you praise; the rest of ...

⁸ Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

⁹ So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.