2 Samuel 11:14 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 11:14

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

BSB

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ASV

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

KJV

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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Commentary

4 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 1, Chapter 3 (604)

Thus David, who in the judgment of Him who chose him was well pleasing to Him in almost all his deeds, as soon as the weight of pressure was removed, broke out into a swelling sore, and, having been as a laxly running one in his appetite for the woman, became as a cruelly hard one in the slaughter of the man; and he who had before known pitifully how to spare the bad learnt afterwards, without impediment of hesitation, to pant even for the death of the good.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is resolved in David's breast (which one would think could never possibly have harboured so vile a thought) that Uriah must die. That innocent, valiant, gallant man, who was ready to die for his prince's honour, must die by his prince's hand. David has sinned, and Bath-sheba has sinned, and both against him, and therefore he must die;

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Uriah cannot thus die alone: the party he commands is in danger of being cut off with him; and it proved so: some of the people, even the servants of David (so they are called, to aggravate David's sin in being so prodigal of their lives), fell with him,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

David wrote a letter - This was the sum of treachery and villany. He made this most noble man the carrier of letters which prescribed the mode in which he was to be murdered. This case some have likened to that of Bellerophon, son of Glaucus, king of Ephyra, who being in the court of Proetus, king of the Argives, his queen Antia, or as others Sthenoboea, fell violently in love with him; but he, refusing to gratify her criminal passions, was in revenge accused by her to Proetus her husband, as having attempted to corrupt her.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֣י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בַבֹּ֔קֶר	va.Bo.ker	in the morning	H1242 →
וַיִּכְתֹּ֥ב	vai.yikh.To	and he wrote	H3789 →
דָּוִ֛ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
סֵ֖פֶר	Se.fer	a letter	H5612 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יוֹאָ֑ב	yo.'Av	Joab	H3097 →
וַיִּשְׁלַ֖ח	vai.yish.Lach	and he sent [it]	H7971 →
בְּיַ֥ד	be.Yad	by [the] hand of	H3027 →
אוּרִיָּֽה׃	'u.ri.Yah	Uriah	H223 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
leads to
- Mark 7:21–22
  For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Matthew 15:19
  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3
  This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and…
- Proverbs 28:26
  He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
- Hebrews 3:12
  See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
Through
Psalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
leads to
- Psalms 39:5
  You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Isaiah 40:15
  Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
- Isaiah 40:17
  All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

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About 2 Samuel