2 Samuel 11:6-27 NASB

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:14

And it came to pass in the morning ,.... When David was informed that Uriah did not go to his own house, but slept with his servants, Satan put it into his head and heart to take the following wicked and cruel method: that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah ; to have him cut off by the sword of the enemy. If Uriah suspected David's criminal conversation with his wife, he was so true and trusted a servant to him, that he would not open his letter to Joab,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:15

And he wrote in the letter, saying ,.... Giving the following orders to Joab: set ye Uriah is the forefront of the hottest battle : over against that part of the city where the enemy was strongest, and the battle the fiercest, and the stones and arrows were cast the thickest: and retire ye from him ; leave him to himself to combat the enemy alone; who seeing him deserted, would sally out upon him, and the few that might be with him, and slay him: that he may be smitten, and die ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:16

And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city ,.... Where lay its greatest strength, and where it was best defended; or besieged it, as the Targum: that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were ; who would not easily give way, and when they saw an opportunity would sally out, Joab cannot be excused from sin, unless he thought that Uriah had been guilty of death, and that David took this way of dispatching him for some political reason; however David was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:17

And the men of the city went out ,.... Made a sally out, as Joab expected they would, when they appeared before them at that part of the city where valiant men were: and fought with Joab ; at least with part of his army posted with Uriah: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David : which made David's sin the more heinous, that several lives were lost through the stratagem he devised to procure the death of Uriah; who could not be placed in a dangerous post alone,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:18

Then Joab sent ,.... Messengers to David, as soon as Uriah was killed: and told David all the things concerning the war ; how the siege had been carried on; what success they had had, good or ill; what their advantages and disadvantages; what men they had lost, and especially in one sally of the enemy upon them, for the sake of which the express was sent. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:19

And charged the messenger ,.... Gave him a particular direction and instruction what he should say at the close of his narrative, according as he should observe the king's countenance to be: saying, when thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king ; giving an account of all the events that happened since the siege was begun to that time. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:20

And if so be that the king's wrath arise ,.... Which might be seen in his countenance, or expressed in his words: and he say, wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight ? as to expose the king's troops to the enemy on the wall, who by stones or darts greatly annoyed them, or sallied out on them, and killed many of them: knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall ? they must have known that, and therefore should have kept out of the reach of their shot. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:21

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth ?.... The same with Jerubbaal, who was Gideon, Judges 6:32 ; Baal, one part of his name, was the name of an idol, and sometimes called Bosheth or Besheth, which signifies shame, being a shameful idol; Gideon had a son called Abimelech, who was smitten, and it is here asked, by whom? did not a woman cast a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez ? which should have been a warning not to go too near the wall of an enemy; the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:22

So the messenger went ,.... From Joab, from the army before Rabbah: and came ; to David in Jerusalem, a course of sixty four miles: and showed David all that Joab had sent him for ; all the events of the war hitherto. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:23

And the messenger said unto David ,.... The particulars of his account follow: surely the men prevailed against us ; the men of the city of Rabbah, the besieged there, in one onset they made upon them: and came out unto us in the field ; the besiegers that lay encamped there; they sallied out upon them: and we were upon them, even unto the entering of the gate ; rallied upon them, and drove them back, and pursued them to the gate of the city. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:23

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