2 Samuel 11:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:14

And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians 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 came near to 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 Syria will come up against you.”

1 Kings 20:26

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

1 Chronicles 20:1

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

2 Chronicles 36:10

In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, 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, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard 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, O daughters of Rabbah! Gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his princes.

Ezekiel 21:20

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

Amos 1:14

So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in 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

(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. )

1 Samuel 18:30

Then the princes 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 name was highly esteemed.