2 Samuel 12:27 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁷ And Yo’aḇ sent messengers to Dawiḏ, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah, and I have captured the city’s water supply.

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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

And it came to be at the turn of the year, at the time sovereigns go out to battle, that Dawiḏ sent Yo’aḇ and his servants with him, and all Yisra’ĕl, and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But Dawiḏ remained at Yerushalayim.

2 Samuel 12:26

And Yo’aḇ fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and captured the royal city.

2 Samuel 12:28

“And now, gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and it be called after my name.”

Ezekiel 21:20

“Appoint a way for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Yehuḏah, into the walled Yerushalayim.

Deuteronomy 3:11

“For only Oḡ sovereign of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Repha’ites. See, his bedstead was an iron bedstead. Is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.