29So David mustered the entire army and went to Rabbah, and attacked and captured it. 30David took the crown from their king’s Or from Milkom’s (that is, Molek’s) head, and it was placed on his own head. It weighed a talent That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms of gold, and it was set with precious stones. David took a great quantity of plunder from the city 31and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking. The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
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