Place
Ammon
Approximate location. The area is clear, but the exact site is not.
The land of the Ammonites. The dot marks Rabbah, its capital, now Amman. Jephthah fought the Ammonites, and in David's war with them Joab besieged Rabbah and Uriah was killed at its wall before David came to take the city.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Jephthah, Judges 11:32
So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.
- Joab, 2 Samuel 11:1
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
- Uriah, 2 Samuel 12:9
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
- David, 2 Samuel 12:29
And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).