2 Samuel 12:26

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Deut 3:11 : 11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)
  • 1 Chr 20:1-3 : 1 And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth 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 overthrew it. 2 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 forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. 3 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut [them] with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. And thus did David unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Sam 11:25 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 12:27-29
    3 verses
    90%

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

    28Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.

    29And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

  • 1 Chr 20:1
    82%

    1And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth 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 overthrew it.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    76%

    1And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 19:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.

    15And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 10:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

    14And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 19:11
    72%

    11And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Chr 19:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7So they hired them thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

    8And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

    9And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

  • 2 Sam 11:16-18
    3 verses
    70%

    16And it came to pass, when Joab kept watch upon the city, that he assigned Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men were.

    17And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

    18Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

  • Amos 1:14
    70%

    14But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

  • 2 Sam 10:6-8
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    70%

    6And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.

    7And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

    8And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    69%

    12of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • 2 Sam 20:15
    69%

    15And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

  • Jer 49:2
    69%

    2Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did possess him, saith Jehovah.

  • 1 Chr 21:4
    68%

    4Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 10:10
    68%

    10And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Chr 11:4-7
    4 verses
    68%

    4And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

    5And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

    6And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

    7And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.

  • Ezek 21:20
    68%

    20Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Judg 11:32-33
    2 verses
    68%

    32So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Jehovah delivered them into his hand.

    33And he smote them from Aroer until thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto Abel-cheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
    67%

    4And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 14:23
    67%

    23So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • Num 21:26
    67%

    26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.

  • Judg 1:8
    67%

    8And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • Judg 11:4
    67%

    4And it came to pass after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

  • Ezek 25:5
    67%

    5And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

  • Num 21:24
    67%

    24And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

  • Jer 25:21
    67%

    21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;

  • 2 Sam 17:24
    67%

    24Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • Judg 3:13
    67%

    13And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of palm-trees.

  • 2 Chr 20:1
    66%

    1And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

  • 2 Chr 25:23
    66%

    23And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

  • 2 Chr 27:5
    66%

    5He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render unto him, in the second year also, and in the third.

  • Judg 11:13-14
    2 verses
    66%

    13And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.

    14And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon;

  • 2 Sam 2:13
    66%

    13And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

  • 2 Sam 17:27
    66%

    27And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

  • 2 Sam 24:4
    66%

    4Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.