2Sa 20:15-22 | TNotes | STEP | 20:15 A siege ramp was often an earthen ramp built up against the wall, a well-known tactic for breaching a walled city’s defenses (see also 2 Kgs 25:1 ; Jer 52:4 ).

b2 Kgs 25:1►

cJer 52:4►

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‏ 2 Samuel 20:15-22

20:15 ^a A siege ramp was often an earthen ramp built up against the wall, a well-known tactic for breaching a walled city’s defenses (see also 2 Kgs 25:1 ^b; Jer 52:4 ^c).
20:16 ^d wise woman: Cp. 14:2 ^e.
Summary for 2Sam 20:18-19: 20:18-19 ^f The woman told a saying to convince Joab not to slaughter an entire city, especially such a noble city as Abel (a shortened form of Abel-beth-maacah, 20:15 ^g), just to capture one criminal.

• an important town in Israel (literally a town that is a mother in Israel): It was common to refer to outlying villages around a larger city as its “daughters.”