2 Samuel 12:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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 forth to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and 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, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name.”

Ezekiel 21:20

mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit. )