Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleAnd Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it, Young's Literal Translation and they go in and lay siege against him, in Abel of Beth-Maachah, and cast up a mount against the city, and it standeth in a trench, and all the people who are [are] with Joab are destroying, to cause the wall to fall. King James Bible And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. Hebrew And Joab’s troops cameוַיָּבֹ֜אוּ (way·yā·ḇō·’ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go and besieged וַיָּצֻ֣רוּ (way·yā·ṣu·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 6696: To confine, bind, besiege [Sheba] עָלָ֗יו (‘ā·lāw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against in Abel-Beth-Maacah בְּאָבֵ֙לָה֙ (bə·’ā·ḇê·lāh) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 59: Abel -- 'meadow', two places in Palestine and built וַיִּשְׁפְּכ֤וּ (way·yiš·pə·ḵū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out a siege ramp סֹֽלְלָה֙ (sō·lə·lāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5550: A military mound, rampart of besiegers against the outer rampart בַּחֵ֑ל (ba·ḥêl) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2426: An army, an intrenchment of the city. הָעִ֔יר (hā·‘îr) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement As all וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every the troops הָעָם֙ (hā·‘ām) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock with אֶת־ (’eṯ-) Preposition Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among Joab יוֹאָ֔ב (yō·w·’āḇ) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3097: Joab -- 'the LORD is father', three Israelites were battering מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ם (maš·ḥî·ṯim) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin the wall הַחוֹמָֽה׃ (ha·ḥō·w·māh) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2346: A wall of protection to topple it, לְהַפִּ֥יל (lə·hap·pîl) Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct Strong's 5307: To fall, lie |