The rendering of the New World Translation is also in keeping with the latest scholarship: “The people that were in it, he brought out that he might put them at sawing stones and at sharp instruments of iron and at axes of iron, and he made them serve at brickmaking. ”
( ૨ શમુએલ ૧૨: ૩૧) “તેણે નગરના લોકોને બહાર લાવીને કરવતો, તિકમો અને કુહાડીઓથી કામ કરવાનું સોંપ્યું.