Battle with the Ammonites

²⁶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites,^[a] and he captured the royal city.^{[b] 27} Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, “We have fought against Rabbah, and we captured the city of the waters. ²⁸ So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it.” ²⁹ So David gathered all of the army, and he went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it. ³⁰ He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight was a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it and it was put on David’s head.) He brought out the plunder of the city in great abundance.^{[c] 31} He also brought out the people who were in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the Ammonites,^[d] and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem.