Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 12:27

2 Samuel chapter 12 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.26Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

v.27This passage

v.28Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 3:11

    (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

  • Ezekiel 21:20

    Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • 2 Samuel 11:1

    And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go outto battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.