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Verse 2 Samuel 12:26. _AND TOOK THE ROYAL CITY._] How can this be,
when Joab sent to David to come to take the city, in consequence of
which David did come and take that city? The explanation seems t...
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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...
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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...
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Capture of Rabbah
= 1 Chronicles 20:1-3...
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_And Joab fought against Rabbah_ The narrative returns to the point at
which it was left in ch. 2 Samuel 11:1. But how long a time was
occupied in the siege does not appear. It is possible that it las...
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AND JOAB FOUGHT—AND TOOK— Or, _Now Joab had fought—and had
taken._...
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_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...
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_AND JOAB FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND TOOK THE
ROYAL CITY._
Joab fought against Rabbah. The time during which this siege lasted,
since the intercourse with Bath-sheba-and the...
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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....
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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...
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TOOK THE ROYAL CITY. — The parallel narrative is resumed at this
point in 1 Chronicles 20:2. Rabbah was situated in the narrow valley
of the upper Jabbok, on both sides of the stream, but with its cit...
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וַ יִּלָּ֣חֶם יֹואָ֔ב בְּ רַבַּ֖ת
בְּנֵ֣י עַמ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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AND JOAB FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,.... Of his
being sent against it, and of his besieging it, we read in
2 Samuel 11:1; but it can hardly be thought that he had been so long
bes...
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And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the
royal city.
Ver. 26. _And took the royal city._] He had well nigh taken it after a
twelve month's siege. David's sin at home had...
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_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...
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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...
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SUCCESS AGAINST THE AMMONITES...
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And Joab, in the second year of the campaign, FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH OF
THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND TOOK THE ROYAL CITY, the city proper,
without the citadel....
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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...
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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,...
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i.e. That part of the city where was the king's palace, where he
ordinarily resided; though now it seems he was retired to a strong
fort....
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2 Samuel 12:26 Joab H3097 fought H3898 (H8735) Rabbah H7237 people
H1121 Ammon H5983 took H3920 (H8799) royal...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Samuel 11:25...
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Royal city — That is, that part of the city where was the king's
palace; though now it seems he was retired to a strong fort....