2 Samuel 11:13

Contextual Overview

⁶ And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁶ Then David sent word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent him to David. ⁶ And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁶ So David sent a message to Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." And Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁶ So David sent a message to Joab that said, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁶ And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁶ David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁶Then David sent word to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁶ So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁶ Forsothe Dauid sente to Joab, and seide, Sende thou Vrye Ethei to me; and Joab sente Vrye to Dauid.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made him: Genesis 19:32-35, Exodus 32:21, Habakkuk 2:15

with the servants: 2 Samuel 11:9

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 12:12 - secretly 2 Samuel 13:26 - let my brother 2 Samuel 13:28 - heart is merry Proverbs 20:1 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when David had called him,.... Invited him to sup with him:

he did eat and drink before him; very freely and plentifully:

and he made him drunk: this was another sin of David's, done in order to make him forget his oath and vow, and that being inflamed with wine, desires might be excited in him to go home and lie with his wife; but even this scheme did not succeed:

and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord: in the guard room, where he had lain before:

but went not down to his house; for he was not so drunk but he remembered his oath, and kept his resolution not to go down to his own house; the Lord no doubt working upon his mind and disinclining him to it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 11:13. He made him drunk — Supposing that in this state he would have been off his guard, and hastened down to his house.