2 Samuel 12:26-31
Rabbah Is Captured
26 aNow Joab bfought against cRabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city. 27And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters. 28Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.” 29So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it. 30And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount. 31And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at ▼▼Hebrew pass through
the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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