26 Meanwhile Joab fought against Rabbah(A) of the Ammonites and captured the royal citadel.

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26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

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Rabbah Is Captured(A)

26 Now (B)Joab fought against (C)Rabbah of the people of Ammon, and took the royal city.

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27 Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought against Rabbah and taken its water supply.

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

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27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah, and I have taken the city’s water supply.

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“Wail, Heshbon,(A) for Ai(B) is destroyed!
    Cry out, you inhabitants of Rabbah!
Put on sackcloth(C) and mourn;
    rush here and there inside the walls,
for Molek(D) will go into exile,(E)
    together with his priests and officials.

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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

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“Wail, O (A)Heshbon, for Ai is plundered!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah,
(B)Gird yourselves with sackcloth!
Lament and run to and fro by the walls;
For [a]Milcom shall go into captivity
With his (C)priests and his princes together.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:3 See v. 1