2 Samuel 11:15

Contextual Overview

¹⁴The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. ¹⁴ It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Yo'av, and sent it by the hand of Uriyah. ¹⁴ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁴ And it happened in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and he sent it by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁴ In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁴ The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah. ¹⁴ In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. ¹⁴In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. ¹⁴ So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁴ And on the morowe Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Vriah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Set ye: 2 Samuel 11:17, 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 18:21, 1 Samuel 18:25, Psalms 51:4, Psalms 51:14, Jeremiah 20:13

hottest: Heb. strong

from him: Heb. from after him

and die: 2 Samuel 12:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:24 - General 2 Samuel 12:12 - secretly 2 Samuel 13:28 - commanded 2 Samuel 14:19 - of Joab 2 Samuel 16:7 - bloody man 1 Kings 15:5 - save only 1 Kings 21:8 - she wrote 1 Chronicles 21:6 - Joab

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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; thus he sought to add murder to adultery, and that in the basest manner, and which he accomplished; and this is often the case, that murder follows adultery, either by way of revenge for it, or in order to cover it, as here.