2 Samuel 12:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. ”

2 Samuel 12:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 12. David's Repentance. Capture of Rabbah (J). The section concerning Nathan ( 2 Samuel 12:1-15 a ) is sometimes regarded as a later addition by some one who was anxious to point out and...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. And took the royal city - How can this be, when Joab sent to David to come to take the city, in consequence of which...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Joab fought—and took— Or, Now Joab had fought—and had taken.
2 Samuel 12:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. Joab fought against Rabbah. The time during which this siege lasted, since the intercourse with Bath-sheba-an...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

David's Repentance and Pardon. The Capture of Rabbah 4. To dress for the wayfaring man] We may notice Eastern ideas of hospitality: cp. Genesis 18:3-5 .
2 Samuel 12:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Took the royal city. — The parallel narrative is resumed at this point in 1 Chronicles 20:2 . Rabbah was situated in the narrow valley of the upper Jabbok, on both sides of the stream, but with it...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XV. DAVID AND NATHAN. 2 Samuel 12:1-12 ; 2 Samuel 12:26-31 . IT is often the method of the writers of Scripture, when the stream of public history has been broken by a private or pers...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Accepting the Lord's Judgment 2 Samuel 12:15-31 When Nathan had gone, David beat out his brief confession into Psalms 51:1-19 . He knew that he was clean, because purged with hyssop, Exodus 1...
2 Samuel 12:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

A year passed away. The child of Bathsheba was born. We can imagine what that year had been to David. Bathsheba, whom in all probability he truly loved, was with him as his wife; but it is inevitable...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(26) В¶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. (27) And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of wa...
2 Samuel 12:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon ,.... Of his being sent against it, and of his besieging it, we read in 2 Samuel 11:1 ; but it can hardly be thought that he had been so lon...
2 Samuel 12:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. Ver. 26. And took the royal city. ] He had well nigh taken it after a twelve month's siege. David's sin at home ha...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Took the royal city That is, that part of the city where the king's palace was; though now, it seems, he was retired to a strong fort. It is not to be supposed that Joab had continued the siege so...
2 Samuel 12:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

David did not immediately confess his sin to God, and Psalms 32:3-4 shows that the Lord waited for some time at least before sending the prophet Nathan to him, likely over nine months, for a son had...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Conquest of Rabbah. B. C. 1036. 26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. That part of the city where was the king's palace, where he ordinarily resided; though now it seems he was retired to a strong fort.
2 Samuel 12:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 12:26 . The narrative now returns to chapter 2 Samuel 11:1 . “The royal city .” From 2 Samuel 12:29 it appears that Rabbah was not wholly captured unti...
2 Samuel 12:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 12:1 . The Lord sent Nathan to David. The substance of the mission, the visitations he foretold, the perfect accomplishment of them, as well from that very day as in future ages, leaves n...
2 Samuel 12:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 12:1 Jehovah sent Nathan unto David. Though David had remained unrepentant for nearly a year, for we read in 2 Samuel 12:14 that the child was born, yet we are not t...
2 Samuel 12:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Joab, in the second year of the campaign, fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city, the city proper, without the citadel.
2 Samuel 12:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 20:1 ; 2 Samuel 11:25
2 Samuel 12:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Royal city — That is, that part of the city where was the king's palace; though now it seems he was retired to a strong fort.

2 Samuel 12:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 12:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 12:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 12:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 12:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 12:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 12:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 12:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 12:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 12:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 12:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 12:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 12:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes