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2 Samuel 11:19

in 2 Samuel 11

and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king all the details of the battle,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king,

KJV

And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

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This verse in 2 Samuel 11

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Joab sent to David a full account of the battle

on 2 Samuel 11:18-21

Joab reports the fighting to David. The answer is the old case of Abimelech, killed at Thebez by “a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall”. Only after that defense is the messenger to add, “Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well”.

This site's exposition

and instructed the messenger

John Gill says the messenger was to read the king's face. The whole news of the war, from the start of the siege, came first. His last words were to wait on what he saw there.

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 charged the messenger,.... Gave him a particular direction and instruction what he should say at the close of his narrative, according as he should observe the king's countenance to be: saying, when thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king; giving an account of all the events that happened since the siege was begun to that time.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיְצַ֥וand he commanded

    vaytzavH6680 →494 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמַּלְאָ֖ךְthe messenger

    hamalakhH4397 →213 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • כְּכַלּוֹתְךָ֗when finishing you

    kekhalotkhaH3615 →208 times

  • אֵ֛ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֥י[the] matters of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • הַמִּלְחָמָ֖הthe battle

    hamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • לְדַבֵּ֥רto speak

    ledaberH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Ambrose of Milan, Apology for the Prophet David, Chapter 1; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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