Cutting people with knives and axes, sawing them apart, tearing them apart with threshing machines, and then roasting them in brick oven

 

The book called the Holy Book tells us of a hideous massacre carried out by the Prophet of God, David, peace be upon him - the grandfather of Jesus - against the people of (Rabbah), as mentioned in (2 Samuel 12: 29-31). When the Prophet David occupied the village, he cut up its inhabitants - of course, the inhabitants of different ages, infants, children, women, and men - with knives and axes, and sawed them apart with saws....


An illustrative image of the sawing carried out by the Crusaders against the Muslims of Andalusia, which is based on such texts.


He trampled them with iron threshers (a threshing machine: a machine pulled by two oxen or similar, with which the stalks of harvested wheat are trampled to separate the grain from the ears).....


A picture of the threshing machine, and on YouTube there is a live video of the work of the threshing machine


. Then he threw them into the brick ovens (brick kilns). Old editions have reported the story with that unparalleled hideousness without embellishment

Those old translations that mentioned the massacre in all its ugliness without embellishment, in contrast to them we find in modern editions of the Bible a complete change to the text to embellish the massacre or an attempt to erase it, which distances this book from being sacred or being a revelation from God, when the translators of those modern editions transformed the cutting up of people with knives, axes and saws - threshers - and burning them in mud brick ovens into David, peace be upon him, forcing them to work in the manufacture of knives, axes, saws, threshers and bricks! 

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Interpretation of Chapter 12 of the Book of Samuel II by Father Antonius Fekry (2 Samuel 12:31)
http://st-takla.org/pub_Bible-Interpretations/Holy-Bible-Tafsir-01-Old-Testament/Father-Antonious-Fekry/10-Sefr-Samoel-El-Thany/Tafseer-Sefr-Samo2il-El-Thani__01-Chapter-12.html#31

The priest in his interpretation turned the holy text upside down, while the text is explicit - in the old translations - that David, peace be upon him, cut them up with knives and axes, and sawed people apart with saws, and cut them up and crushed them under threshing machines, and threw them into brick kilns, to say that he often used them to work in cutting trees and threshing with threshing machines, and indeed this interpretation was included within the text of the Holy Bible in modern translations - as we see from the documentation images in the folds of our topic - and based on Therefore, the priest's words became part of the Holy Bible!

Then the priest returns and decides that the number is explicit, and we even find him justifying the massacre, saying: ( This is undoubtedly cruelty , but they deserved it, for they were offering their children as living sacrifices to their god, Moloch )!! If idol worshippers were offering their children as sacrifices, would Prophet David, peace be upon him, follow their example? And why didn't he take them and guide them to the worship of God instead of cutting up people, young and old, women and innocent men, in such an unparalleled ugliness?!

One of the translations even attempted to camouflage, obscure and pass the massacre on to the sensitive sense of the modern Christian! The translation stated: ( And they took out all the people who were in it and bound them with chains and visits and passed them before him with a decree ). So what does the translator of this book mean by saying: ( a decree )?

Rather, we notice through comparing these editions that there is a difference in the weight of the crown that the Prophet David, peace be upon him, took from Malkam or their king into three weights as follows:

(1) In the Rome edition of 1671 AD, the weight of the crown was estimated at a qintar of gold with jewels:



and a qintar, according to the simplified Arabic translation, is equal to about thirty-four kilograms.


p. 328

(2) The weight of the crown was estimated at a qintar of gold (about 28 pounds) from the point of view of Father Tadros Yacoub:


https://st-takla.org/pub_Bible-Interpretations/Holy-Bible-Tafsir-01-Old-Testament/Father-Tadros-Yacoub-Malaty/10-Sefr-Samoel-El-Thany/Tafseer-Sefr-Samo2il-El-Thani__01-Chapter-12.html#31

David enjoyed many spoils after killing the people of the city!

If we calculate 28 pounds X 339.84 grams = 9515.52, which is more than nine kilograms of gold only.


While Father Antonius Fekry sees in his interpretation that the weight of the talent is about 45 kilograms.



https://st-takla.org/pub_Bible-Interpretations/Holy-Bible-Tafsir-01-Old-Testament/Father-Antonious-Fekry/10-Sefr-Samoel-El-Thany/Tafseer-Sefr-Samo2il-El-Thani__01-Chapter-12.html#31


While the translation of the Book of Life made the weight 34 kilograms as shown in the following pictures.



(3) The common Arabic translation estimated the weight of the crown at only thirteen pounds,
so we say: 13 pounds X 339.84 grams = 4417.92, which is more than four and a quarter kilograms of gold only.



Now we have three versions of the weight of the crown, which one is correct?

There is also a conflict between the editions of the Bible about who placed the crown on the head of the Prophet David as follows:
- The followers of the Prophet David are the ones who placed the crown on his head.

- He is the one who placed the crown on his head (Joint Arabic Translation).

- It was on the head of the Prophet David without specifying who placed it!

Of course, we will not discuss the question of how the Prophet David carried a crown weighing 45 kilograms on his head. Or the justifications for solving this dilemma.

Photo documentation of the crimes of the “God is Love” campaign:

Children are cut in half and thrown as food for the hungry “Conquistadors” dogs!
Book:

Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Author:

Father Bartholomew de Las Casas

https://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/doc/lascasas/casas.htm