So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba.
The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.
The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.