and cut: Instead of wyyasar, "and he cut," the parallel passage is wyyasem, "and he put them;" which is also the reading here of seven manuscripts collated by Dr. Kennicott. Sawing asunder, etc., of human beings, have no more place in the text, than they had in David's conduct towards the Ammonites.
with saws: Exo 1:14; Jos 9:23; Jdg 8:6-7, Jdg 8:16-17; 1Ki 9:21