And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Ver. 6. And David sent to Joab, &c.] To prevent Bathsheba's miseries, wherein he also was sure to have a great share, David casteth about how to colour and cover his sin with fair pretences, - as Alcibiades embroidered a curtain with lions and eagles, to cover his pictures of owls and apes, - but all would not do, God so disposing that David's sin should come to light.

Send me Uriah the Hittite.] As before, like the devil, Mat 13:25 he had sowed another man's ground, so now he would fain father upon him his bastardly brood, intrudens filium suum in agros Uriae, thrusting his son into Uriah's inheritance.

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