2 Samuel 12:28

2 Samuel Old Testament

WEB

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name."

KJV

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.

Commentary

Commentary

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together,.... The rest of the soldiers in the land of Israel, and co me to Rabbah: and encamp against the city; invest it in form: and take it; upon a surrender or by storm; for it could not hold out long: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name; so great a regard had Joab, though an ambitious man, to the fame and credit of David his king: so Craterus (a) at the siege of Artacacna, being prepared to take it, waited the coming of Alexander, that he might have the honour of it. (a) Curt. Hist. l. 6. c. 6.