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2Sa 12:27 — And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Rabbah		2Sa 11:1; Deu 3:11; Eze 21:20
the city of waters		Probably that part of the city situated near the pond, from which the rest received their water.

Correlating Passages

Rabbah

	2Sa 11:1	And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth [to 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 still at Jerusalem.
	Deu 3:11	For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
	Eze 21:20	Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 12:27," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Sa/12/27.html>.

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