Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Samuel 11:24
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III. DAVID'S SIN, CHASTISEMENT AND RESTORATION 1. David's Great Sin CHAPTER 11 _ 1. David's great sin (2 Samuel 11:1)_ 2. David sends for Uriah (2 Samuel 11:6) 3. The murder of Uriah (2
SAM 11. DAVID, BATH-SHEBA, AND URIAH (J). 2 SAMUEL 11:1. In the spring, at the beginning of the season suitable for military operations, Joab and the army set out to besiege Rabbah (Jeremiah 49:2 *);...
News of Uriah's Death carried to David 19. _the matters of the war_ The same Heb. phrase as that translated in 2 Samuel 11:18 "the things concerning the war....
_Bathsheba Becomes David's Wife._ 2 Samuel 11:22-27 22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. 23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed a...
DAVID AND BATHSHEBA This narrative is of the greatest value. It shows the faithfulness and the high morality of the historian, who relates, without a single attempt at palliation, this scandalous chap...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 11 DAVID AND BATHSHEBA V1 The next spring came. Kings usually went to fight wars during springtime. David sent Joab out with David...
_וַ_†_יֹּר֨וּ_† _הַ_†_מֹּורִ֤ים_† אֶל ־עֲבָדֶ֨ךָ֙ מֵ עַ֣
CHAPTER XIV. _ DAVID AND URIAH._ 2 Samuel 11:1. HOW ardently would most, if not all readers, of the life of David have wished that it had ended before this chapter! Its golden era has passed away, a...
ADDING BLOOD-GUILTINESS TO ADULTERY 2 Samuel 11:14 Joab must have smiled grimly to himself when he received his master's letter. “This king of ours can sing psalms with the best, but I have to do his...
In the whole of the Old Testament literature there is no chapter more tragic or full of solemn and searching warning than this. Carefully pondering it, we notice the downward steps logically following...
(22) So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for. (23) And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field,...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13. The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings go...
AND THE SHOOTERS SHOT FROM OFF OF THE WALL UPON THY SERVANTS,.... Arrows out of their bows, or stones out of their engines; the Israelites following them so closely to the gate of the city, came withi...
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and [some] of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. Ver. 24. _And thy servant Uriah the Hittite is de...
1 While Ioab besieged Rabbah, Dauid committeth adulterie with Bath-sheba. 6 Vriah sent for by Dauid to couer the adulterie, would not goe home neither sober nor drunken. 14 Hee carieth to Ioab the l...
And the shooters, the archers stationed on the ramparts, SHOT FROM OFF THE WALL UPON THY SERVANTS, as the pressed so near the gate; AND SOME OF THE KING'S SERVANTS BE DEAD, AND THY SERVANT URIAH, THE...
David's Murder of Uriah...
The account with Ammon had by no means been settled, and in the Spring David sent Joab and the armies of Israel to battle the Ammonites and to besiege their capital city, of Rabbah. We are told specif...
14-27 Adulteries often occasion murders, and one wickedness is sought to be covered by another. The beginnings of sin are much to be dreaded; for who knows where they will end? Can a real believer ev...
2 Samuel 11:24 archers H3384 (H8688) shot H3384 (H8686) wall H2346 servants H5650 kings H4428 servants H5650 de
CONTENTS: David's great sin. CHARACTERS: David, Uriah, Bathsheba, Joab. CONCLUSION: A Christian with natural tendencies to sensuality may have cravings even when the general bent of his mind is to li...
2 Samuel 11:1. _When kings go forth to war._ After the latter rain, early in May, when the campaign could open, and when the main of their harvest was saved. _Rabbah_ was the capital of the Ammonites,...
_And it came to pass in an eventide._ THE FALL AND PUNISHMENT OF DAVID ILLUSTRATED I. The circumstances of David previous to His fall. For several years he had been in a state of great trouble: But i...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:1 The story of the Ammonite war continues up through 2 Samuel 11:1 and concludes in...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 11:1. “AFTER THE YEAR,” etc., rather, _at the return of the year, i.e._, in the spring when kings were accustomed to begin military operations. “HIS SERVANTS,”...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 11:1 AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED; Hebrew and Revised Version, _at the return of the year; _that is, as Josephus paraphrases it, "the next spring." It seems quite certain that the w...
Now in chapter eleven. It came to pass, after these things that Joab, and the army in the springtime when it was a good time to go out and fight, after the winter rains were over, Joab with the forces...