2 Samuel 11:21

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

Abimelech: Judges 9:53

Jerubbesheth: Judges 6:32, Judges 7:1, Jerubbaal

Thy servant: 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 3:34, Psalms 39:8, Isaiah 14:10, Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 16:52

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 26:6 - Hittite 2 Samuel 11:16 - he assigned

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 history is recorded in Judges 9:52;

why went ye nigh the wall? exposing your lives to so much danger, and by which so many lives were lost:

then say thou, thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also; the whole has not been told, the worst of all is, as the messenger was to represent it, that brave gallant soldier Uriah is dead; this Joab ordered to be told last, as knowing very well it would pacify the king's wrath, and was the agreeable news he wanted to hear.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who smote Abimelech ... - This reference indicates the existence in David’s time of the national annals of that period in an accessible form, and the king’s habit of reading, or having read to him, the history of his country. (Compare Esther 6:1.)