And it came to pass in the beginning of a new year, in the times when kings are wont to go forth to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel. And they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

And as Joab fought against Rabbah, the city of the children of Ammon, he took the king's Tower,

and sent messengers to David, saying, "I have made assault to Rabbah, and also have taken the castle from whence they had their water.

And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah and assaulted it and gat it.

And when David was come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash out of Rabbah, the city of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel out of Lodebar and Barzillai the Gileadite out of Rogelim,