2 Samuel 12:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.

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  • Deut 3:11 : 11 (For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)
  • 1 Chr 20:1-3 : 1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, Joab went out at the head of the armed forces and made waste all the land of the Ammonites and put his men in position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem. And Joab took Rabbah and made it waste. 2 And David took the crown of Milcom from off his head; its weight was a talent of gold and it had stones of great price in it; and it was put on David's head, and he took a great store of goods from the town. 3 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Sam 11:25 : 25 Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.

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    27 And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.

    28 So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.

    29 Then David got all the people together and went to Rabbah and made war on it and took it.

  • 1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, Joab went out at the head of the armed forces and made waste all the land of the Ammonites and put his men in position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem. And Joab took Rabbah and made it waste.

  • 1 Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

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    14 So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

    15 And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, his brother, and came into the town. Then Joab came back to Jerusalem.

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    13 Then Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

    14 And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, and came into the town. So Joab went back from fighting the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

  • 11 And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon with Abishai, his brother, at their head.

  • 1 Chr 19:7-9
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    7 So with this money they got thirty-two thousand war-carriages, and the help of the king of Maacah and his people, who came and took up their position in front of Medeba. And the children of Ammon came together from their towns for the fight.

    8 And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.

    9 So the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position on the way into the town; and the kings who had come were stationed by themselves in the field.

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    16 So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.

    17 And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.

    18 Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:

  • 14 And I will make a fire in the wall of Rabbah, burning up its great houses, with loud cries in the days of war, with a storm in the day of the great wind:

  • 2 Sam 10:6-8
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    6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, they sent to the Aramaeans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, and got for payment twenty thousand footmen, and they got from the king of Maacah a thousand men, and from Tob twelve thousand.

    7 And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.

    8 And the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position at the way into the town: and the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob, with the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

  • 12 The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • 15 And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.

  • 2 Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage of those who took his heritage, says the Lord.

  • 4 But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.

  • 10 And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon, with Abishai, his brother, at their head.

  • 1 Chr 11:4-7
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    4 Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (which is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the people of the land, were there.

    5 And the people of Jebus said to David, You will not come in here. But still, David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.

    6 And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief.

    7 And David took the strong tower for his living-place, so it was named the town of David.

  • 20 Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to come to Rabbah in the land of the children of Ammon, and to Judah and to Jerusalem in the middle of her.

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    32 So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his hands.

    33 And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel.

  • 4 And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

  • 23 So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.

  • 26 For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.

  • 8 Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

  • 4 Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

  • 5 And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • 24 But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.

  • 21 Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,

  • 24 And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.

  • 13 And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.

  • 1 Now after this, the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunim, made war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 23 And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits.

  • 5 He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.

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    13 And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.

    14 And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon,

  • 13 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and came face to face with them by the pool of Gibeon; and they took up their position, facing one another on opposite sides of the pool.

  • 27 Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

  • 4 But the king's order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king, to take the number of the children of Israel.