Christian Standard Bible
2 Samuel 11:14
14The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
2 Samuel 11:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
- New International Version (NIV)In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
- English Standard Version (ESV)In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
- New King James Version (NKJV)In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
Context of 2 Samuel 11:14
12“Stay here today also,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and David got him drunk. He went out in the evening to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home. The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15In the letter he wrote: Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest fighting, then withdraw from him so that he is struck down and dies. 16When Joab was besieging the city, he put Uriah in the place where he knew the best enemy soldiers were.
Read all of 2 Samuel 112 Samuel 11:14 word by word
וַיְהִ֣י בַבֹּ֔קֶר וַיִּכְתֹּ֥ב דָּוִ֛ד סֵ֖פֶר אֶל־יוֹאָ֑ב וַיִּשְׁלַ֖ח בְּיַ֥ד אוּרִיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And it came to pass in the morningבֹּ֫קֶרbôqer · morningH1242
- that Davidדָּוִדdâvid dâvîyd · DavidH1732
- wroteכָּתַבkâthab · to writeH3789
- a letterסֵ֫פֶרsêpher siphrâh · scroll: documentH5612
- to Joabיוֹאָבyô'âb · JoabH3097
- and sentשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
- by the handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
- of Uriahאוּרִיָּה'ûrîyâh 'ûrîyâhû · UriahH223
Cross-references for 2 Samuel 11:14
- 1 Kings 21:8So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
- Psalms 19:13Moreover, keep your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed from blatant rebellion.
- Psalms 52:2Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.
- Psalms 62:9Common people are only a vapor; important people, an illusion. Together on a scale, they weigh less than a vapor.
- Jeremiah 9:1If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable — who can understand it?
- Micah 7:3Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.
Commentaries on 2 Samuel 11:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14David wrote a letter - This was the sum of treachery and villany. He made this most noble man the carrier of letters which prescribed the mode in which he was to be murdered. This case some have likened to that of Bellerophon, son of Glaucus, king of Ephyra, who being in the court of Proetus, king of the Argives, his queen Antia, or as others Sthenoboea, fell violently in love with him; but he, refusing to gratify her criminal passions, was in revenge…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-27Verses 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 ever tread this path? Can such a person be indeed a child of God? Though grace be not lost in such an awful case, the assurance and consolation of it must be suspended. All David's life, spirituality, and comfort in religion, we may be sure were lost. No…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-27David’s affair with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband Uriah show that David was capable of serious moral failure. These actions deeply damaged David’s life and leadership. These failures took place during a period when David was enjoying major military success against the Ammonites (2 Samuel 10:1–11:1; 12:26–31).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah ... Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle--The various arts and stratagems by which the king tried to cajole Uriah, till at last he resorted to the horrid crime of murder--the cold-blooded cruelty of despatching the letter by the hands of the gallant but much-wronged soldier himself, the enlistment of Joab to be a partaker of his sin, the heartless affectation of mourning…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Samuel 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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