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2 Kings 12:27

And Joab sent messengers to David, saying: I have fought against Rabbath, and the city of waters is about to be taken.

Challoner: The city of watersRabbath the royal city of the Ammonites, was called the city of waters, from being encompassed with waters.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Misitque Joab nuntios ad David, dicens : Dimicavi adversum Rabbath, et capienda est Urbs aquarum.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἀπέστειλεν Ἰωὰβ ἀγγέλους πρὸς Δαυεὶδ καὶ εἶπεν Ἐπολέμησα ἐν Ῥαββὰθ καὶ κατελαβόμην τὴν πόλιν τῶν ὑδάτων·
Hebrew (WLC): וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח יוֹאָ֛ב מַלְאָכִ֖ים אֶל דָּוִ֑ד וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ נִלְחַ֣מְתִּי בְרַבָּ֔ה גַּם לָכַ֖דְתִּי אֶת עִ֥יר הַמָּֽיִם

Haydock's commentary

The city of waters. Rabbath, the royal city of the Ammonites, was called the city of waters, from being encompassed with waters. (Challoner) See chap. v. 8.

The Hebrew in the preceding verse seems to insinuate, (Haydock) that "he had taken the royal city." But he was only on the point of doing it, or had, perhaps, made himself master of some part of it. Here the Hebrew, "I have taken," may be explained in the same sense, unless the city of waters were the lower part of Rabbath, lying on the Jaboc. Junius translates, "He cut off the waters, which entered the city;" and Josephus favours this explanation. It seems the siege lasted about two years. (Calmet)

Antiochus took this city, by depriving the inhabitants of water. (Polybius v.)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.