2 Samuel 12:28

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."

2 Samuel 12:28 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 12:28

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together
The rest of the soldiers in the land of Israel, and come to Rabbah:

and encamp against the city;
invest it in form:

and take it;
upon a surrender or by storm; for it could not hold out long:

lest I take the city, and it be called after my name;
so great a regard had Joab, though an ambitious man, to the fame and credit of David his king: so Craterus ^F1 at the siege of Artacacna, being prepared to take it, waited the coming of Alexander, that he might have the honour of it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Curt. Hist. l. 6. c. 6.

2 Samuel 12:28 In-Context

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."

29 So David gathered all of the army, and he went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.

30 He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight [was] a talent of gold, and there [was] a precious stone [in it] and it [was] put on David's head.) He brought out the plunder of the city {in great abundance}.