2 Samuel 11:1

Modern English Version

In the spring of the year, the time when the kings go out to battle, David sent out Joab and his officers, all of Israel with him. They brought to ruin the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:14

When the Ammonites realized that Aram had fled, they retreated from before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab turned away from fighting against the Ammonites, and he came to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 20:22

The prophet came to the king of Israel and said, “Go, strengthen yourself and prepare, and see what you do, for next year the king of Aram will come up against you.”

1 Kings 20:26

The next year Ben-hadad assembled the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.

1 Chronicles 20:1

Now at the beginning of the year when kings would go out to war, Joab led the army and devastated the land of the Ammonites. He came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. So Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it.

2 Chronicles 36:10

In the spring of that year King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon with the precious items from the house of the Lord. Then Zedekiah his brother was king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Psalm 60:9

Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

Ecclesiastes 3:8

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it will be a desolate heap, and her towns will be burned with fire. Then Israel will be heir to those who were his heirs, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:3

Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai has been devastated! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, and run to and fro inside the walls; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his officials together.

Ezekiel 21:20

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

Amos 1:14

So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its fortresses, with a war cry on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

Zechariah 14:3

Then the Lord will go out and fight those nations as He fights in the day of war.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is nine cubits long and four cubits wide, according to the cubit of a man.)

1 Samuel 18:30

Then the commanders of the Philistines went out to make war. And when they went out David was more successful than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly honored.