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2 Samuel 11:12

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“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

KJV

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 11

Commentary

4 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

tomorrow I will send you back

on 2 Samuel 11:12-13

David tries once more, keeping Uriah another day and promising to let him depart tomorrow. David makes him drunk, hoping wine will loosen what conscience and loyalty held firm sober. Even drunk, Uriah goes out to sleep among the king's servants and still does not go down to his house.

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 David said to Uriah, tarry here today also,.... In his court, when he found he could not persuade him to go to his own house: and tomorrow I will let thee depart: after he had tried one method more with him: so Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow; not in his own house, but the king's palace.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • דָּוִ֜דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אוּרִיָּ֗הUriah

    ʾuriyahH223 →39 times

  • שֵׁ֥בremain

    shevH3427 →1079 times

  • בָּזֶ֛הin this [place]

    bazehH2088 →1180 times

  • גַּם־also

    gam-H1571 →769 times

  • הַיּ֖וֹםthis day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • וּמָחָ֣רand tomorrow

    umacharH4279 →

  • אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑ךָּI will let go you

    ʾashalechekaH7971 →845 times

  • וַיֵּ֨שֶׁבand he remained

    vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times

  • אוּרִיָּ֧הUriah

    ʾuriyahH223 →39 times

  • בִירוּשָׁלִַ֛םin Jerusalem

    virushalimH3389 →643 times

  • בַּיּ֥וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַה֖וּא<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וּמִֽמָּחֳרָֽת׃and from [the] next day

    umimochoratH4283 →

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 2:37

    Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 13:19

      And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.

    • Ezekiel 17:15–20

      But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break…

    • Jeremiah 37:7–10

      “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you,…

    • Jeremiah 17:5

      This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 32:5

      He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”

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

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