2 Samuel 12:26

Battle with the Ammonites

26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the {Ammonites}, and he captured {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 David consoled Bathsheba his wife, and he went to her and slept with her. She bore a son, and he called him Solomon, and Yahweh loved him.

25 He sent [word] by the hand of Nathan the prophet, so he called him Jedidiah because of Yahweh.

26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the {Ammonites}, and he captured {the royal city}.

27 Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, "We have fought against Rabbah, and we captured the city of the waters.

28 So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "sons/children of Ammon"
• [b]. Literally "city of the kingship"