12 ²⁶ vv26-31: cp 1Chr. 20.1-3 Joab attacked the Ammonite city of Rabbah and took the King's Pool. 12 ²⁷ He sent messengers to David with this report: 'I have attacked Rabbah and have taken the pool. 12 ²⁸ You had better muster the rest of the army yourself, besiege the city and take it; otherwise I shall take the city and the name to be proclaimed over it will be mine.' 12 ²⁹ David accordingly mustered his whole forces, marched to Rabbah, attacked it and took it. 12 ³⁰ He took the crown from the head of Milcom, which weighed a talent of gold and was set with a precious stone, and this he placed on his own head. He also removed a great quantity of booty from the city; 12 ³¹ he took its inhabitants and set them to work with saws and other iron tools, sharp and toothed, and made them work in the brick-kilns. David did this to all the Cities of the Ammonites; then he and all his people returned to Jerusalem.