²⁷ And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.

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

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.

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])