²⁷ Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought against Rabbah and taken its water supply.

²⁰ Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites^(A) and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.

David and Bathsheba

11 In the spring,^(A) at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab^(B) out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army.^(C) They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.^(D) But David remained in Jerusalem.

¹¹ (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites.^(A) His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide.^[a] It is still in Rabbah^(B) of the Ammonites.)