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2 Samuel 11:7

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When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing with the war.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

KJV

And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 11

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
And when Uriah was come unto him,.... To David, to whom he came first, before he went to his own house, desirous of knowing what was the special business of the king with him: David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered; he asked of the welfare of Joab the general, and of the common soldiers, and of the warriors, as the Targum, the mighty men that went along with Joab, 2Sa 10:7. David seems to have been at a loss what to say to him.

This site's exposition

Send me Uriah the Hittite

on 2 Samuel 11:6-8

He calls Uriah home and asks “how Joab and the troops were doing with the war”. Then he sends him down with “Go down to your house and wash your feet”. The design is that Uriah sleep with his wife so the child could pass as his own.

This site's exposition

David asked how Joab and the troops were doing

Henry says a messenger of far less rank could have brought this report, and he calls the questions a pretext. Gill says David was at a loss for words. Barnes says the king was forced into falsehood to hide his sin.

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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Thus does he pretend a more than ordinary concern for his army when that was the least thing in his thoughts; if he had not had another turn to serve, an express of much less figure than Uriah might have sufficed to bring him a report of the state of the war.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

David was forced to stoop to falsehood and dissimulation in the vain hope of hiding his sin.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וַיָּבֹ֥אand he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אוּרִיָּ֖הUriah

    ʾuriyahH223 →39 times

  • אֵלָ֑יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • וַיִּשְׁאַ֣לand he asked

    vaiyishalH7592 →171 times

  • דָּוִ֗דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • לִשְׁל֤וֹםto [the] welfare of

    lishlomH7965 →236 times

  • יוֹאָב֙Joab

    yoavH3097 →144 times

  • וְלִשְׁל֣וֹםand to [the] welfare of

    velishlomH7965 →236 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • וְלִשְׁל֖וֹםand to [the] welfare of

    velishlomH7965 →236 times

  • הַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃the battle

    hamilchamahH4421 →320 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 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

    Genesis 29:6

    “Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”

    it leads to

    • Genesis 37:14

      Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Samuel 25:5

      So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name

    • Exodus 18:7

      So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

    • 2 Samuel 20:9

      “Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.

    • 1 Samuel 17:22

      Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.

  • Through

    Genesis 37:14

    Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 35:27

      Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

    • Luke 19:42

      and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

    • Psalms 125:5

      But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

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, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ambrose of Milan, Apology for the Prophet David, Chapter 1; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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