2 Samuel 12:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the water city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁷ Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought against Rabbah and captured the city’s water supply.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And Joab sent messengers to David, saying: "I have struggled against Rabbah, and so the City of Waters will soon be seized.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And Joab sent messengers to David, saying: I have fought against Rabbath; and the city of waters is about to be taken.

2 Samuel 12:27 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:1

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 12:26

Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.

2 Samuel 12:28

Now, then, gather the rest of the people together, encamp against the city, and take it, lest I myself take the city and it be called by my name.”

Ezekiel 21:20

mark out the road for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites or to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)