2Sa 11:25, 1Ch 20:1 | ESV | STEP | David said to the messenger , Thus shall you say to Joab , Do not let this matter displease you , for the sword devours now one and now another . Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it. And encourage him.

2 Samuel 11:25

25 David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”

1 Chronicles 20:1

The Capture of Rabbah

1 ^aIn the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And ^bJoab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it.