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# They caught up with him
"Joab and the soldiers caught up with him"
# against the city against the wall
"against the city wall"
# were wreaking destruction to break down the wall
The use of the words "destruction" and "break down" are probably a hendiadys to emphasize how hard the men were working to destroy the wall. They were probably using a log with metal at one end. Many men would run with the log and hit the wall with the metal end until it broke down. Alternate translation: "were doing all they could to break down the wall." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hendiadys]])