2 Samuel 12:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.
  • 1 Chr 20:1-3 : 1 It came to pass, after the year had ended, at the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led the power of the army and devastated the land of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it. 2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, with precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head. He also brought out exceedingly much spoil from the city. 3 He brought out the people who were in it and cut them with saws, with harrows of iron, and with axes. So David dealt with all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Sam 11:25 : 25 Then David said to the messenger, Thus you shall say to Joab: Do not let this thing trouble you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it. So encourage him.

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

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

    28Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, encamp against the city, and take it: unless I take the city, and it be called by my name.

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

  • 1 Chr 20:1
    82%

    1It came to pass, after the year had ended, at the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led the power of the army and devastated the land of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it.

  • 2 Sam 11:1
    76%

    1And it came to pass, after the year had ended, 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 people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

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

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

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

  • 2 Sam 10:13-14
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    75%

    13And Joab drew near, and the people who were with him, to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

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

  • 1 Chr 19:11
    72%

    11And the rest of the people he delivered to the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Chr 19:7-9
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    7So they hired thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered together from their cities, and came to battle.

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

    9And the children of Ammon came out, and set the battle in array before the gate of the city; and the kings that came were by themselves in the field.

  • 2 Sam 11:16-18
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    70%

    16So it happened, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.

    17Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

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

  • Amos 1:14
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    14But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, 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 had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob 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 Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    69%

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

  • 2 Sam 20:15
    69%

    15They besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, building a siege ramp against the city that stood against the wall, and all the people with Joab battered the wall to bring it down.

  • Jer 49:2
    69%

    2Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will cause the alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it will be a desolate heap, and her villages will be burned with fire. Then Israel will inherit those who were his heirs, says the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 21:4
    68%

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

  • 2 Sam 10:10
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    10And the rest of the people he entrusted to the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might set them in array against the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Chr 11:4-7
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    68%

    4Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

    5And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not enter here. Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the city of David.

    6And David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and became chief.

    7Then David lived in the stronghold; therefore, they called it the city of David.

  • Ezek 21:20
    68%

    20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Judg 11:32-33
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    68%

    32So Jephthah advanced towards the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

    33And he struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
    67%

    4And he took the fortified cities of Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 14:23
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    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 to Arnon.

  • Judg 1:8
    67%

    8Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and taken it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • Judg 11:4
    67%

    4And it came to pass, in the process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

  • Ezek 25:5
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    5And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Num 21:24
    67%

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

  • Jer 25:21
    67%

    21Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon,

  • 2 Sam 17:24
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    24Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

  • Judg 3:13
    67%

    13And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.

  • 2 Chr 20:1
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    1It happened after this that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them others besides the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

  • 2 Chr 25:23
    66%

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

  • 2 Chr 27:5
    66%

    5He also fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that same year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand measures of barley. The Ammonites paid this to him in the second year as well as the third.

  • Judg 11:13-14
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    66%

    13And the king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and to Jordan: now therefore restore those lands peacefully.

    14And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon:

  • 2 Sam 2:13
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    13And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, one on 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 came to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

  • 2 Sam 24:4
    66%

    4Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Therefore Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to count the people of Israel.