2 Samuel 12:26
And Joab fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
Brenton Septuagint
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 by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jeddedi, for the Lord's sake.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:11For only Og the king of Basan was left of the Raphain: behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the + 3:11 Or, acropolis, citadel: or extremity of the land of the Ammonites.chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.
2 Samuel 11:25And David said to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab, Let not the matter be grievous in thine eyes, for the sword devours one way at one time and another way at another: strengthen thine array against the city, and destroy it, and strengthen + 11:25 There can be little doubt that αὐτὸν the Alex. reading, is correct, instead of αὐτήν.him.
1 Chronicles 20:1And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time of the going forth of kings to war, that Joab gathered the whole force of the army, and they ravaged the land of the children of Ammon; and he came and besieged Rabba. But David abode in Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabba and destroyed it.
Ezekiel 25:5And I will give up the city of Ammon for camels' pastures, and the children of Ammon for a pasture of sheep: and ye shall know 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 →