"Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displeasee thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him."
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Verse 2 Samuel 11:25. _THE SWORD DEVOURETH ONE AS WELL AS ANOTHER_]
What abominable hypocrisy was here! He well knew that Uriah's death
was no _chance-medley_; he was by his own order thrust on the ed...
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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 Samuel 11...
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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 *)...
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DISPLEASE THEE. be evil in thine eyes. This event put David in Joab's
power, which Joab freely used. David was not tongue-tied in 2 Samuel
3:29. but from now he had to endure Joab's insolence, being t...
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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....
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_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...
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11:25 encourage (a-40) Lit. 'strengthen.'...
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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 cha...
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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’...
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ONE AS WELL AS ANOTHER. — While David’s reply to Joab is
ostensibly to encourage him, on the ground that the mishap was a mere
accident of war, it is yet couched in such language as to imply a
special...
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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶל ־הַ
מַּלְאָ֗ךְ כֹּֽה ־תֹאמַ֤ר אֶל
־יֹואָב֙ אַל ־יֵרַ֤ע בְּ עֵינֶ֨יךָ֙...
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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...
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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 hi...
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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
followin...
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Then David said unto the messenger, (k) Thus shalt thou say unto Joab,
Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well
as another: make thy battle more strong against the city,...
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(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,...
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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...
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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...
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THEN DAVID SAID TO THE MESSENGER,.... Whom he dispatched again to Joab
upon the delivery of his message:
THUS SHALL THOU SAY TO JOAB; in the name of David:
LET NOT THIS THING DISPLEASE THEE; be not...
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Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let
not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as
another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and...
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_Let not this thing displease thee_ Be not disheartened by this loss.
David showed no sign of grief or displeasure at these tidings, as he
heard the news, which he desired, of Uriah's death. _The swor...
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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...
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David's Murder of Uriah...
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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...
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DISPLEASE THEE:
_ Heb._ be evil in thine eyes
ONE AS WELL AS ANOTHER:
_ Heb._ so and such...
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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...
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LET NOT THIS THING DISPLEASE THEE; be not dejected or discouraged by
this sad occasion. ENCOURAGE THOU HIM, i.e. Joab, to proceed in the
siege....
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2 Samuel 11:25 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) messenger H4397 say H559
(H8799) Joab H3097 thing H1697 displease H3415 (H8799) H5869 sword
H2719 devours H398 (H8799) another H2090 Strengthen H2388 (H868...
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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 l...
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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,...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:1 The story of the Ammonite war
continues up through 2 Samuel 11:1 and concludes in 2 Samuel 12:26. In
between comes the account of David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:2).
⇐...
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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,”...
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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...
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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 force...
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1 Samuel 6:9; 2 Samuel 12:26; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Ecclesiastes 9:12;
Ecclesiastes 9:1; Joshua 7:8; Joshua 7:9...