1 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Samuel 11:25
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 add...
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...
And Joab fought—and took— Or, Now Joab had fought—and had taken.
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. Joab fought against Rabbah. The time during which this sieg...
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 1...
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 uppe...
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 p...
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 h...
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 lov...
(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 fo...
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 ; bu...
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 af...
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...
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 Nat...
The Conquest of Rabbah. B. C. 1036. ...
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.
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 i...
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 w...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 12:1 Jehovah sent Nathan unto David. Though David had remained unrepentant for nearly a year, for we read in 2 Samue...
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...
Success Against the Ammonites
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.
26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.