15 And they proceeded to come and lay siege against him in Abel of Beth-maʹa·cah and cast up a siege rampart against the city,+ as it was standing within a rampart. And all the people that were with Joʹab were undermining the wall, to throw it down.

22 In his right hand the divination proved to be for Jerusalem, to set battering rams,+ to open one’s mouth for a slaying,* to raise the sound in an alarm signal,+ to set battering rams against gates, to throw up a siege rampart, to build a siege wall.+