_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED, AT THE TIME WHEN KINGS GO FORTH TO BATTLE, THAT DAVID SENT JOAB, AND HIS SERVANTS WITH HIM, AND ALL ISRAEL; AND THEY DESTROYED THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND BESIEGED RABBAH. BUT DAVID TARRIED STILL AT JERUSALEM._ At the time when kings go forth to batt... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN AN EVENINGTIDE, THAT DAVID AROSE FROM OFF HIS BED, AND WALKED UPON THE ROOF OF THE KING'S HOUSE: AND FROM THE ROOF HE SAW A WOMAN WASHING HERSELF; AND THE WOMAN WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK UPON._ In an evening-tide, that David arose from off his bed. The Hebrews, like other O... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SENT AND INQUIRED AFTER THE WOMAN. AND ONE SAID, IS NOT THIS BATHSHEBA, THE DAUGHTER OF ELIAM, THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE?_ One said - literally, he said to himself. IS NOT THIS BATH-SHEBA ..., х_ BAT-SHEBA`_ (H1339), daughter of the oath; or Bath-shua (1 Chronicles 3:5); Septuagint... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS, AND TOOK HER; AND SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM, AND HE LAY WITH HER; FOR SHE WAS PURIFIED FROM HER UNCLEANNESS: AND SHE RETURNED UNTO HER HOUSE._ David sent messengers, and took her. The despotic kings of the East, when they take a fancy for a woman, send an officer to the house... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WOMAN CONCEIVED, AND SENT AND TOLD DAVID, AND SAID, I AM WITH CHILD._ The woman conceived, and sent and told David. Some immediate measures of concealing their sin were necessary, as well for the king's honour as for her safety, because death was the punishment of an adulteress (Leviticus... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SENT TO JOAB, SAYING, SEND ME URIAH THE HITTITE. AND JOAB SENT URIAH TO DAVID._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID TO URIAH, GO DOWN TO THY HOUSE, AND WASH THY FEET. AND URIAH DEPARTED OUT OF THE KING'S HOUSE, AND THERE FOLLOWED HIM A MESS OF MEAT FROM THE KING._ Go down to thy house. This sudden recall, the manner of the king, his frivolous questions (2 Samuel 11:7), and his urgency for Uriah t... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT URIAH SLEPT AT THE DOOR OF THE KING'S HOUSE WITH ALL THE SERVANTS OF HIS LORD, AND WENT NOT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE._ But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house. It is customary for servants, especially the porters or doorkeepers, to sleep in the parch or long gallery outside the doors-sometime... [ Continue Reading ]
_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?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND URIAH SAID UNTO DAVID, THE ARK, AND ISRAEL, AND JUDAH, ABIDE IN TENTS; AND MY LORD JOAB, AND THE SERVANTS OF MY LORD, ARE ENCAMPED IN THE OPEN FIELDS; SHALL I THEN GO INTO MINE HOUSE, TO EAT AND TO DRINK, AND TO LIE WITH MY WIFE? AS THOU LIVEST, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, I WILL NOT DO THIS THING.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT DAVID WROTE A LETTER TO JOAB, AND SENT IT BY THE HAND OF URIAH._ David wrote a letter to Joab ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WROTE IN THE LETTER, SAYING, SET YE URIAH IN THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOTTEST BATTLE, AND RETIRE YE FROM HIM, THAT HE MAY BE SMITTEN, AND DIE._ Set ye Uriah in the fore front of the hottest battle. The various arts and stratagems by which the king tried to cajole Uriah, until at last he resorte... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JOAB OBSERVED THE CITY, THAT HE ASSIGNED URIAH UNTO A PLACE WHERE HE KNEW THAT VALIANT MEN WERE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JOAB SENT AND TOLD DAVID ALL THE THINGS CONCERNING THE WAR;_ Then Joab sent and told David ... The report needs no comment. It is sufficient to say that it was worthy of the quarter from which it came; and in possessing so terrible a secret as the premeditated murder of Uriah, the wily Joab p... [ Continue Reading ]