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And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

20:1 David tarried at Jerusalem. The events associated with Uriah and Bathsheba took place during the time of David’s tarrying at Jerusalem (II Samuel 11:1–12:25). Thus the Chronicler’s account jumps from the time when Joab besieged Rabbah (II Samuel 11:1) to the destruction of Rabbah (II Samuel 12:26). He apparently wished to spare his readers returning from their Babylonian exile from dwelling too much on this unsavory event in the career of their great ancestral king David.


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