2 Samuel 12:26
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New International Version (©1984)
Meanwhile Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal citadel.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and captured the royal city.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Meanwhile, Joab fought against the Ammonite city of Rabbah and captured its royal fortress.

King James Bible
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

American King James Version
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

American Standard Version
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

Bible in Basic English
Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joab fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and laid close siege to the royal city.

Darby Bible Translation
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

English Revised Version
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

World English Bible
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joab fighteth against Rabbah of the Bene-Ammon, and captureth the royal city,

Geneva Study Bible

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

Wesley's Notes

12:26 Royal city - That is, that part of the city where was the king's palace; though now it seems he was retired to a strong fort.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2Sa 12:26-31. Rabbah Is Taken.

26. Joab fought against Rabbah-The time during which this siege lasted, since the intercourse with Bath-sheba, and the birth of at least one child, if not two, occurred during the progress of it, probably extended over two years.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:26-31 To be thus severe in putting the children of Ammon to slavery was a sign that David's heart was not yet made soft by repentance, at the time when this took place. We shall be most compassionate, kind, and forgiving to others, when we most feel our need of the Lord's forgiving love, and taste the sweetness of it in our own souls.


Deuteronomy 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was an iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit.)
1 Chronicles 20:1 Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it. (NASB ©1995)

Ammon Ammonites Bene-Ammon Captured Captureth Children Citadel City Fighteth Fighting Fought Joab Jo'ab Meanwhile Rabbah Royal

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

Joab 2Sa 11:25 1Ch 20:1

Rabbah. Rabbah, or Rabbath-Ammon, also called Philadelphia, from Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, was situated east of Jordan, and, according to Eusebius, ten miles east from jazer. It is sometimes mentioned as belonging to Arabia, sometimes to Coelo-Syria; and was one of the cities of the Decapolis east of Jordan. Josephus extends the region of Perea as far as Philadelphia. It is now, says Burchhardt, called Amman, distant about 19 miles to the S.E. by E. of Szalt, and lies along the banks of a river called Moiet Amman, which has its source in a pond, at a few hundred paces from the south-western end of the town, and empties itself in the Zerka, or Jabbok, about four hours to the northward. This river runs in a valley bordered on both sides by barren hills of flint, which advance on the south side close to the edge of the stream. The edifices which still remain, though in a decaying state, from being built of a calcareous stone of moderate hardness, sufficiently attest the former greatness and splendour of this metropolis of the children of Ammon.

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