And they came
bow' (bo)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
and besieged
tsuwr (tsoor)
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
him in Abel
'Abel (aw-bale')
a meadow; Abel, the name of two places in Palestine. -- Abel.
of Bethmaachah
Beyth Ma`akah (bayth mah-ak-aw')
house of Maakah; Beth-Maakah, a place in Palestine -- Beth-maachah.
and they cast up
shaphak (shaw-fak')
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out -- cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip.
a bank
collah (so-lel-aw')
used passively; a military mound, i.e. rampart of besiegers -- bank, mount.
against the city
`iyr (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
and it stood
`amad (aw-mad')
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
in the trench
cheyl (khale)
an army; also (by analogy,) an intrenchment -- army, bulwark, host, poor, rampart, trench, wall.
and all the people
`am (am)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock -- folk, men, nation, people.
that were with Joab
Yow'ab (yo-awb')
Jehovah-fathered; Joab, the name of three Israelites -- Joab.
battered
shachath (shaw-khath')
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin -- batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, utterly, waste(-r).
the wall
chowmah (kho-maw')
a wall of protection -- wall, walled.
to throw it down
naphal (naw-fal')
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
