Rabbah Is Captured^(A)

²⁶ Now ^(B)Joab fought against ^(C)Rabbah of the people of Ammon, and took the royal city.

Rabbah Is Conquered^(A)

20 It^(B) happened ^[a]in the spring of the year, at the time kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the armed forces and ravaged the country of the people of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But ^(C)David stayed at Jerusalem. And ^(D)Joab defeated Rabbah and overthrew it. ² Then David ^(E)took their king’s crown from his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. And it was set on David’s head. Also he brought out the ^[b]spoil of the city in great abundance. ³ And he brought out the people who were in it, and ^[c]put them to work with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. So David did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

^11 (A)“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^(B)the ^[a]giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in ^(C)Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

²⁵ Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing ^[a]displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.’ So encourage him.”