²⁷ And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah, and I have taken the city’s water supply.

²⁰ Appoint a road for the sword to go to ^(A)Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.

David, Bathsheba, and Uriah

11 It happened in the spring of the year, at the ^(A)time when kings go out to battle, that ^(B)David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged ^(C)Rabbah. But David remained at 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.