29 So David gathered all the people together, and went against Rabbah, and besieged it, and took it.

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29 So David mustered the entire army and went to Rabbah, and attacked and captured it.

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30 (A)And he took their king’s crown from his head, (which weighed a [a]talent of gold, with precious stones) and it was set on David’s head: and he brought away the spoil of the city in exceedingly great abundance.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:30 That is: threescore pounds after the weight of the common talent.

30 David took the crown(A) from their king’s[a] head, and it was placed on his own head. It weighed a talent[b] of gold, and it was set with precious stones. David took a great quantity of plunder from the city

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:30 Or from Milkom’s (that is, Molek’s)
  2. 2 Samuel 12:30 That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms