26. Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

27. Joab sent messengers to DAVID, and said, "I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.

28. Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name."

29. DAVID gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

30. He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on DAVID's head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.

31. He brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, under iron picks, under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln; and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then DAVID and all the people returned to Jerusalem.