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2 Samuel 11:10

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And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?

KJV

And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?

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This verse in 2 Samuel 11

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Whether he suspected any thing or no, Providence put this resolution into his heart, and kept him to it, for the discovering of David's sin, and that the baffling of his design to conceal it might awaken David's conscience to confess it and repent of it. The reason he gave to David for this strange instance of self-denial and mortification was very noble,

This site's exposition

slept at the door

on 2 Samuel 11:9-10

Uriah “slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants” and the first plan fails. David asks him directly, “Why didn’t you go home?”, showing how far he will press a man to cover his own sin. Uriah's answer in the next verse gives his reasons.

This site's exposition

Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?

Clarke hears David telling Uriah that a soldier back from the road should go home to his house and rest. Henry sees the hand of God in Uriah's choice to sleep at the door of the palace. It kept David's sin from being hidden.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ambrose of Milan

Apology for the Prophet David, Chapter 1 · Written before 397.

proposed

We have taken up the task of writing an apology for the present style of the prophet David, not because he needs this gift, who has excelled in such great merits and flourished in virtues, but because many people, reading the sequence of his deeds without considering the power of the Scriptures or the hidden mysteries, wonder how such a great prophet did not avoid the contagion of adultery first and then of murder. Therefore, it was our desire to review the history itself, which seems to have been exposed to sin.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And when they had told David,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Camest thou not from thy journey? - It is not thy duty to keep watch or guard; thou art come from a journey, and needest rest and refreshment.

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּגִּ֤דוּand people told

    vaiyagiduH5046 →370 times

  • לְדָוִד֙to David

    ledavidH1732 →999 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יָרַ֥דhe has gone down

    yaradH3381 →381 times

  • אוּרִיָּ֖הUriah

    ʾuriyahH223 →39 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בֵּית֑וֹhouse his

    beitoH1004 →2046 times

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • דָּוִ֜דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אוּרִיָּ֗הUriah

    ʾuriyahH223 →39 times

  • הֲל֤וֹא¿ not

    halo'H3808 →5168 times

  • מִדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙from a journey

    miderekhH1870 →707 times

  • אַתָּ֣ה[are] you

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • בָ֔אcoming

    va'H935 →2568 times

  • מַדּ֖וּעַwhy?

    madua'H4069 →72 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יָרַ֥דְתָּhave you gone down

    yaradtaH3381 →381 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בֵּיתֶֽךָ׃house your

    beitekhaH1004 →2046 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 11 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ambrose of Milan, Apology for the Prophet David, Chapter 1; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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