The city of waters - The lower town of Rabbah (the modern Ammam), so called from a stream which rises within it and flows through it. The upper town with the citadel lay on a hill to the north of the stream, and was probably not tenable for any length of time after the supply of water was cut off.
Verse 2 Samuel 12:27. _AND HAVE TAKEN THE CITY OF WATERS._] The city where the _tank_ or _reservoir_ was that supplied the city and suburbs with water. Some think that the original, לכדתי את עיר המים...
2. THE MESSAGE OF GOD AND DAVID'S CONFESSION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CHASTISEMENT CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The Lord's message through Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1)_ 2. David's anger (2 Samuel 12:5) 3. Thou art t...
2 SAMUEL 12. DAVID'S REPENTANCE. CAPTURE OF RABBAH (J). The section concerning Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1_ a_) is sometimes regarded as a later addition by some one who was anxious to point out and emphasi...
CITY OF WATERS. Figure of speech _Hypallage._ App-6. waters of the city: i.e. the lower waters or town, cutting off the citadel, which David came and took....
_the city of waters_ "Just before reaching _Ammân_[the modern name of Rabbah], the gorge takes a sudden turn to the north, and then swells into a narrow plain, covered with luxuriant grass, and emboso...
Capture of Rabbah = 1 Chronicles 20:1-3...
I HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH, AND HAVE TAKEN THE CITY OF WATERS, &C.— Rabbah was a royal, a large, and a populous city, watered, and in some measure encompassed by the river Jabbok. It had its name fr...
_The Final Siege of Rabbah._ 2 Samuel 12:26-31 26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought agains...
_AND JOAB SENT MESSENGERS TO DAVID, AND SAID, I HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH, AND HAVE TAKEN THE CITY OF WATERS._ The city of waters. Rabbah, like Aroer, was divided into two parts-one, the lower town,...
DAVID'S REPENTANCE AND PARDON. THE CAPTURE OF RABBAH 4. To dress for the wayfaring man] We may notice Eastern ideas of hospitality: cp. Genesis 18:3....
THE CITY OF WATERS] i.e. the lower town of Rabbah, on the Jabbok. It received this name because of a perennial stream which rises within it and which still flows through it....
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 12 NATHAN’S MESSAGE TO DAVID V1 The *Lord sent Nathan to David. Nathan went to David and he said, ‘Two men lived in a city. One ma...
וַ יִּשְׁלַ֥ח יֹואָ֛ב מַלְאָכִ֖ים אֶל ־דָּוִ֑ד...
CHAPTER XV. _ DAVID AND NATHAN._ 2 Samuel 12:1; 2 Samuel 12:26. IT is often the method of the writers of Scripture, when the stream of public history has been broken by a private or personal inciden...
ACCEPTING THE LORD'S JUDGMENT 2 Samuel 12:15 When Nathan had gone, David beat out his brief confession into Psalms 51:1. He knew that he was clean, because purged with hyssop, Exodus 12:22; that he w...
A year passed away. The child of Bathsheba was born. We can imagine what that year had been to David. Bathsheba, whom in all probability he truly loved, was with him as his wife; but it is inevitable...
And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of (r) waters. (r) That is, the chief city and where all the water pipes are, is as good as taken....
CHAPTER XII. The city of waters. Rabbath, the royal city of the Ammonites, was called the city of waters, from being encompassed with waters. (Challoner) See chap. v. 8. --- The Hebrew in the precedi...
(26) В¶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. (27) And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of wat...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13. The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings go...
AND JOAB SENT MESSENGERS TO DAVID,.... To acquaint him how he had proceeded, and what success he had had: AND SAID, I HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH; laid siege to it, and skirmished with parties that sa...
And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters. Ver. 27. _The city of waters,_] _i.e., _ _a_ The palace royal encompassed with waters, bo...
_Took the royal city_ That is, that part of the city where the king's palace was; though now, it seems, he was retired to a strong fort. It is not to be supposed that Joab had continued the siege so l...
1 Nathans parable of the Ewe lambe, causeth Dauid to be his owne Iudge. 7 Dauid, reproued by Nathan, confesseth his sinne and is pardoned. 15 Dauid mourneth and prayeth for the childe, while it liue...
And Joab sent messengers to David and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters, for it lap on both banks of the Upper Jabbok, in a narrow valley beneath its fort or acropo...
SUCCESS AGAINST THE AMMONITES...
David did not immediately confess his sin to God, andPsalms 32:3 shows that the Lord waited for some time at least before sending the prophet Nathan to him, likely over nine months, for a son had been...
26-31 To be thus severe in putting the children of Ammon to slavery was a sign that David's heart was not yet made soft by repentance, at the time when this took place. We shall be most compassionate,...
The same royal city so called, because it either stood beside the river, or was encompassed with water, both for defence and delight. Although the words are by some learned men rendered thus, I HAVE T...
2 Samuel 12:27 Joab H3097 sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) fought H3898 ...
CONTENTS: David's rebuke and repentance. Birth of Solomon. Ammonite victory. CHARACTERS: God, David, Nathan, Bathsheba, Joab. CONCLUSION: If the believer, brought face to face with his sins sincerel...
2 Samuel 12:1. _The Lord sent Nathan to David._ The substance of the mission, the visitations he foretold, the perfect accomplishment of them, as well from that very day as in future ages, leaves not...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 12:26 The author returns to the siege of RABBAH, last mentioned in 2 Samuel 11:25. The city of waters
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 12:26. The narrative now returns to chapter 2 Samuel 11:1. “THE ROYAL CITY.” From 2 Samuel 12:29 it appears that Rabbah was not wholly captured until David came...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 12:1 JEHOVAH SENT NATHAN UNTO DAVID. Though David had remained unrepentant for nearly a year, for we read in 2 Samuel 12:14 that the child was born, yet we are not to suppose that...
David thought that things were just going great until the prophet Nathan came to him. Nathan said to David, There is a man in your kingdom who is very wealthy, had many herds, many flocks many servant...
2 Samuel 11:1; Deuteronomy 3:11; Ezekiel 21:20...
Of waters — Rabbah was so called because it was encompassed with water....