The Capture of Rabbah

20 ^(A)In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And ^(B)Joab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it.

David and Bathsheba

11 ^(A)(B)In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged ^(C)Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

Rabbah Is Captured

^26 (A)Now Joab ^(B)fought against ^(C)Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city. ²⁷ And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters. ²⁸ Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.” ²⁹ So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it. ³⁰ And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent^[a] of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount. ³¹ And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at^[b] the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

¹¹ (For ^(A)only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of ^(B)the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in ^(C)Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits^[a] was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the ^(D)common cubit.^[b])

⁵ I will make ^(A)Rabbah a ^(B)pasture for camels and Ammon^{[a] (C)}a fold for flocks. ^(D)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

²⁰ Mark a way ^(A)for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.