And it happened at the turn of the year, at the time when messengers go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they destroyed the sons of Ammon, and lay siege to Rabbah. But David abode at Jerusalem.
Of Hebron: Jerijah the head of the Hebronites, for his generations to his fathers. In the fortieth year of David’s reign, they were sought, and were found among them mighty men of strength at Jazer of Gilead.
For the fields of Heshbon droop, the vine of Sibmah. The masters of the nations have crushed its choice plants. They have come to Jazer; they wander in the desert; her branches are spread out; they have crossed the sea.
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you more than the weeping of Jazer. Your tendrils have crossed the sea; they reach to the sea of Jazer. One devastating has fallen on your harvest, and on your grape crop.
And I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with a war cry in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the windstorm.
and you shall draw near, across from the sons of Ammon. You shall not besiege them nor be stirred up against them, for I have not given of the land of the sons of Ammon to you for a possession. For I have given it for a possession to the sons of Lot.
For only Og the king of Bashan remained of the rest of the giants. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, nine cubits long and four cubits broad, by the cubit of a man?