¹⁵ All the troops with Joab came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Maakah.^(A) They built a siege ramp^(B) up to the city, and it stood against the outer fortifications. While they were battering the wall to bring it down,

² Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp^(A) up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.^(B)

²² Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry,^(A) to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp^(B) and to erect siege works.^(C)