John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 12:26

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, etc.] Of his being sent against it, and of his besieging it, we read in (<101101>2 Samuel 11:1); but it can hardly be thought that he had been so long besieging it, as that David had two children by Bathsheba; but the account of the finishing of it is placed here, that the story concerning Bathsheba might lie together without any interruption: and took the royal city; or that part of it in which the king’s palace was, and which, as Abarbinel observes, was without the city, as the palaces of kings now usually are.

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