2Sa 11:1 | NASB1995 | STEP | Then it happened in the spring , at the time when kings go out to battle , that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel , and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah . But David stayed at Jerusalem .

d 2 Sam 12:26-29; Jer 49:2, 3; Amos 1:14

2 Samuel 11:1

1 ^aThen it happened ^{▼▼ Lit at the return of the year
,} ^cin the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and ^dbesieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.