2 Samuel 12:26

Battle With The Ammonites

²⁵ and He sent word through Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah (beloved of the Lord) for the sake of the Lord [who loved the child]. ²⁶ Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city. ²⁷ Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; I have even taken the city of waters.

Ammon

Ammonites

Joab

Rabbah

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the [the giants known as the] Rephaim. Behold, his bed frame was a bed frame of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It was nine cubits (12 ft.) long and four cubits (6 ft.) wide, using the cubit of a man [the forearm to the end of the middle finger].)

1 Chronicles 20:1-3

Then it happened at the end of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged and devastated the land of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem [with Bathsheba]. Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it.

2 Samuel 11:25

Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab this, ‘Do not let this thing disturb you, for the sword devours one [side] as well as another. Strengthen your battle against the city and overthrow it’; and so encourage Joab.”