Teks -- 2 Samuel 12:28 (NET)

12:28 So now assemble the rest of the army and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 2Sa 12:28 - Take it

For having taken one part of the city, he concluded the remaining part of it could not long stand out.

Wesley: 2Sa 12:28 - Lest

Lest I have the honour of taking it.

JFB: 2Sa 12:28 - encamp against the city, and take it

It has always been characteristic of Oriental despots to monopolize military honors; and as the ancient world knew nothing of the modern refinement of kings gaining victories by their generals, so Joab sent for David to command the final assault in person. A large force was levied for the purpose. David without much difficulty captured the royal city and obtained possession of its immense wealth.

JFB: 2Sa 12:28 - lest I take the city, and it be called after my name

The circumstance of a city receiving a new name after some great person, as Alexandria, Constantinople, Hyderabad, is of frequent occurrence in the ancient and modern history of the East.

TSK: 2Sa 12:28 - it be called after my name

it be called after my name : Heb. my name be called upon it, Joh 7:18

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Sa 12:28 - Take it // Lest it be called after my name

Take it for having taken one part of the city, he concluded the remaining part of it could not long stand out.

Lest it be called after my name ; lest I have the honour of taking it. Thus he seeks to ingratiate himself with the king, by pretending great care for his honour and interest.

Haydock: 2Sa 12:28 - Take it

Take it. The higher, and more impregnable part; which honour Joab reserved for David.

Gill: 2Sa 12:28 - 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

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together,.... The rest of the soldiers in the land of Israel, and come 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.