2 Samuel 12:27

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 embosomed in low round hills. The fish-stocked stream, with shells studding every stone and pebble, winds in the midst, a narrow channel, receiving occasional affluents in its course, and making Rabbah most truly a -city of waters." " Tristram's Land of Israel, p. 533.