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2 Samuel 12:27

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

Context

24David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
25and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.
26Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
27Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.
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 by my name.”
29David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
30He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David)’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.

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