2 Samuel 11:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:14

When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 20:22

Then the prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him, “Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against you.”

1 Kings 20:26

In the spring Ben-hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.

1 Chronicles 20:1

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army, ravaged the country of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and overthrew it.

2 Chronicles 36:10

In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, along with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah 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 for war and a time for peace.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore, the time is surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sound the battle alarm against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:3

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and slash yourselves with whips! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his attendants.

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.

Amos 1:14

So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a storm on the day of the whirlwind;

Zechariah 14:3

Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

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.)

1 Samuel 18:30

Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out, David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his fame became very great.