And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
Þerfor þei camen, and fouyten ayens hym in Habela, and in Bethmacha, and cumpassiden þe citee with strengthingis; and þe citee was bisegid. Soþeli al þe cumpany, þat was with Joab, enforside to distrie þe wallis.