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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(A)Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war
In (B)Rabbah of the Ammonites;
It shall be a desolate mound,
And her [a]villages shall be burned with fire.
Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance,” says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:2 Lit. daughters

“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

14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of (A)Rabbah,
And it shall devour its palaces,
(B)Amid shouting in the day of battle,
And a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.

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