¹² They captured another 10,000 and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them off, dashing them to pieces on the rocks below.

⁸ During Jehoram’s reign, the Edomites revolted against Judah and crowned their own king. ⁹ So Jehoram went out with his full army and all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he went out at night and attacked them^[a] under cover of darkness. ¹⁰ Even so, Edom has been independent from Judah to this day. The town of Libnah also revolted about that same time. All this happened because Jehoram had abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

¹⁰ “And now see what the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir are doing. You would not let our ancestors invade those nations when Israel left Egypt, so they went around them and did not destroy them.

³ He also made slaves of the people of Rabbah and forced them to labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes.^[a] That is how David dealt with the people of all the Ammonite towns. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

³¹ He also made slaves of the people of Rabbah and forced them to labor with^[a] saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to work in the brick kilns.^[b] That is how he dealt with the people of all the Ammonite towns. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.