2 Samuel 12:27

2 Samuel 12:27

25 and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So¹ he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

Rabbah Is Captured

26 Now ^aJoab fought against ^bRabbah of the people of Ammon, and took the royal city.

27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah, and I have taken the city’s water supply.

28 Now therefore, gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called after my name.”

29 So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, fought against it, and took it.

30 ^aThen he took their king’s crown from his head. Its weight was a talent of gold, with precious stones. And it was set on David’s head. Also he brought out the¹ spoil of the city in great abundance.

31 And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over to the brick works. So he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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the city of waters—Rabbah, like Aroer, was divided into two parts—one the lower town, insulated by the winding course of the Jabbok, which flowed almost round it, and the upper and stronger town, called the royal city. "The first was taken by Joab, but the honor of capturing so strongly a fortified place as the other was an honor reserved for the king himself."

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