2 Samuel 12:26

Rabbah Is Captured

26 ¹Now Joab ²fought against ³Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.

2 Samuel 12:26 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 12:26

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.

2 Samuel 12:26 In-Context

24 Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him

25 and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.

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

28 Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name."

Cross References

• 1. For ver. 26-31, see 1 Chronicles 20:1-3
• 2. 2 Samuel 11:1
• 3. Deuteronomy 3:11