Halakhah for Kiddushin 152:17

ועוד אמר רב יהודה אמר רב ארבע מאות ילדים היו לו לדוד וכולם בני יפת תואר היו וכולם מסתפרים קומי ומגדלים בלורית היו וכולם יושבים בקרוניות של זהב והיו מהלכים בראשי גייסות והן הן בעלי אגרופים של בית דוד דאזלי לבעותי עלמא

But there was Ittai the Gittite.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XV, 19.');">³⁴</span> And should you answer, here too it means that he dwelt in Gath, - but R'Nahman said: Ittai the Gittite came and destroyed it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. Milcom, the idol of the Ammonites, and the whole point of R. Nahman's dictum is that he did this as a heathen. V. 'A. Z. 44a.');">³⁵</span> Moreover, Rab Judah said in Rab's name, David had four hundred children, all the offsprings of 'beautiful women,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Captured in war; v. Deut. XXI, 10-14.');">³⁶</span> all with hair trimmed in front<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Roman fashion, with a fringe on the forehead and curls hanging down on the temples.');">³⁷</span> and locks growing long;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Belurith (etym. obscure) a heathen fashion of growing locks from the crown of the head, hanging down in plaits at the back, v. Krauss, T.A. I 645.]');">³⁸</span> and all sat in golden chariots and went at the head of armies, and they were the strong men<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., men of fists.'');">³⁹</span> of the House of David! - They merely went to terrorise [the opposing armies].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But did not actually fight.');">⁴⁰</span>

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