# They caught up with him

"Joab and the soldiers caught up with him"

# against the city against the wall

"against the city wall"

# battered the wall to knock it down

This means that they used a battering ram to knock down the wall. A battering ram was a cut tree or large log with a sharpened end or an end covered in metal. It was held by several men who would pound the end against a wall. Alternate translation: "used a battering ram to knock down the wall" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])