¹⁵ And they came and besieged him in ^(A)Abel Beth-maacah, and ^(B)they ^[a]built up an assault ramp against the city, and it stood against the outer rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction in order to topple the wall.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^[a](A)Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and ^(B)he led ^[b]their populations into exile to Assyria.