2 Samuel 12:26
Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
In Context
25And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.
27And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:11(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)
2 Samuel 11:25Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.
1 Chronicles 20:1Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, Joab went out at the head of the armed forces and made waste all the land of the Ammonites and put his men in position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem. And Joab took Rabbah and made it waste.
Ezekiel 25:5And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 12:16-26
David's Humiliation; Birth of Solomon. ( b. c. 1036.) 15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. 16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. 18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of… Read the whole commentary →