Add parallel Print Page Options

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.[a] 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,[b] and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:30 Literally “very many”
  2. 2 Samuel 12:31 Literally “sons/children of Ammon”