¹⁵ and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family^(A)—not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

² Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp^(A) up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.^(B)

²² Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry,^(A) to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp^(B) and to erect siege works.^(C)