2 Samuel 12:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • John 7:18 : 18 The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.

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

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    7 Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.

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  • 1 Chr 20:1
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    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.

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    12 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

  • Deut 20:14
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    14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

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    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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    18 Is not the Lord your God with you? and has he not given you rest on every side? for the Lord has given the people of the land into my hands, and the land is overcome before the Lord and before his people.

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    25 And have I now come up to send destruction on this place without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

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