2 Samuel 12:27 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 12:27

Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The city of waters - The lower town of Rabbah (the modern Ammam), so called from a stream which rises within it and flows through it. The upper town with the citadel lay on a hill to the north of the stream, and was probably not tenable for any length of time after the supply of water was cut off.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח	vai.yish.Lach	and he sent	H7971 →
יוֹאָ֛ב	yo.'Av	Joab	H3097 →
מַלְאָכִ֖ים	mal.'a.Khim	messengers	H4397 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
דָּוִ֑ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
נִלְחַ֣מְתִּי	nil.Cham.ti	I have fought	H3898 →
בְרַבָּ֔ה	ve.ra.Bah	against Rabbah	H7237 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
לָכַ֖דְתִּי	la.Khad.ti	I have captured	H3920 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עִ֥יר	'ir	[the] city of	H5892 →
הַמָּֽיִם׃	ha.Ma.yim	the waters	H4325 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Samuel 11:1
In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David…
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 20:1
  In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained…
- 1 Kings 20:26
  In the spring, Ben-hadad mobilized the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
- 1 Kings 20:22
  Afterward, the prophet approached the king of Israel and said, “Go and strengthen your position, and take note what you must do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against…
- 2 Chronicles 36:10
  In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and…
- Ecclesiastes 3:8
  a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Through
Ezekiel 21:20
Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
leads to
- Jeremiah 49:2
  Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned.…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Amos 1:14
  So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.
Through
Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
leads to
- Genesis 14:5
  In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,