2 Samuel 12:26

Contextual Overview

²⁶ Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and took the royal city. ²⁶ Meanwhile, Joab was fighting against Rabbah, the capital of Ammon, and he captured the royal fortifications. ²⁶ Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. ²⁶ Joab fought against Rabbah, a royal city of the Ammonites, and he was about to capture it. ²⁶ So Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city. ²⁶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. ²⁶ Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. ²⁶Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.²⁶ Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city. ²⁶ Therfor Joab fauyt ayens Rabath, of the sones of Amon, and he fauyt ayens the `kyngis citee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joab: 2 Samuel 11:25, 1 Chronicles 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 Burckhardt, called Amman, distant about 19 miles to the se 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.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 3:11 - Rabbath Joshua 10:2 - the royal cities Joshua 13:25 - Rabbah 2 Samuel 8:12 - Syria 2 Samuel 11:1 - Rabbah Psalms 60:9 - strong city Ezekiel 21:20 - Rabbath Ezekiel 25:4 - men Ezekiel 25:5 - Rabbah Amos 1:14 - Rabbah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon,.... Of his being sent against it, and of his besieging it, we read in

2 Samuel 11:1; but it can hardly be thought that he had been so long besieging it, as that David had two children by Bathsheba; but the account of the finishing of it is placed here, that the story concerning Bathsheba might lie together without any interruption:

and took the royal city; or that part of it in which the king's palace was, and which, as Abarbinel observes, was without the city, as the palaces of kings now usually are.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 12:26. And took the royal city. — How can this be, when Joab sent to David to come to take the city, in consequence of which David did come and take that city? The explanation seems to be this: Rabbah was composed of a city and citadel; the former, in which was the king's residence, Joab had taken, and supposed he could soon render himself master of the latter, and therefore sends to David to come and take it, lest, he taking the whole, the city should be called after his name.