2 Samuel 12 · Verse 26

2 Samuel 12:26

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
2 Samuel 12:26, King James Version

2 Samuel 12:26 in other translations

BSBMeanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.
WEBNow Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
ASVNow Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
YLTAnd Joab fighteth against Rabbah of the Bene-Ammon, and captureth the royal city,
DARBYAnd Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
BBENow Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.
WebsterAnd Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

What does 2 Samuel 12:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 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.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

2 Samuel 12:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּלָּ֣חֶםvai.yi.La.chemand he foughtH3898
יוֹאָ֔בyo.'AvJoabH3097
בְּרַבַּ֖תbe.ra.Batagainst Rabbah ofH7237
בְּנֵ֣יbe.Nei[the] people ofH1121
עַמּ֑וֹןa.MonAmmonH5983
וַיִּלְכֹּ֖דvai.yil.Kodand he capturedH3920
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
עִ֥יר'ir[the] city ofH5892
הַמְּלוּכָֽה\׃ha.me.lu.Khah<the> royaltyH4410

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Samuel 12:26

  • 1 Chronicles 20:1-3

    And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it. And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David’s head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city. And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

  • Deuteronomy 3:11

    For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

  • 2 Samuel 11:25

    Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Joab.
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 Burckhardt, 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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Context

  • 2 Samuel 12:25

    And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

  • 2 Samuel 12:26

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

  • 2 Samuel 12:27

    And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.

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2 Samuel 12:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Joab peleaba contra Rabba de los hijos de Ammón, y tomó la ciudad real.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Joab fit la guerre contre Rabba des fils d’Ammon, et il prit la ville royale.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Joab stritt wider Rabba der Kinder Ammon, und er nahm die Königsstadt ein.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Igitur pugnabat Joab contra Rabbath filiorum Ammon, et expugnabat urbem regiam.