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The Capture of Rabbah
In the spring at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
2Then David took the crown from the head of their king.[fn] It was found to weigh a talent of gold[fn] and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
3[David] brought out the people who [were] there and put [them to work][fn] with saws, iron picks, and axes. And [he] did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then [David] and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
420:2 Or from the head of Milcom. Milcom, also called Molech, was god of the Ammonites; see Leviticus 18:21 and 1 Kings 11:7.
20:2 A talent is approximately 75.4 pounds or 34.2 kilograms of gold.
20:3 Or cut them
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