2 Samuel 11:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ”

2 Samuel 11:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Sam 11. David, Bath-sheba, and Uriah (J). 2 Samuel 11:1-5 . In the spring, at the beginning of the season suitable for military operations, Joab and the army set out to besiege Rabbah ( Jeremi...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. David wrote a letter - This was the sum of treachery and villany. He made this most noble ma...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. David wrote a letter to Joab ...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

David and Bathsheba This narrative is of the greatest value. It shows the faithfulness and the high morality of the historian, who relates, without a single attempt at palliation, this scandalous...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Sent it by the hand of Uriah. — The brave soldier is made the bearer of his own death-warrant, and his well-known valour for his king is to be the means of accomplishing his destruction, to relieve...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XIV. DAVID AND URIAH. 2 Samuel 11:1-27 . HOW ardently would most, if not all readers, of the life of David have wished that it had ended before this chapter! Its golden era has passed...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Adding Blood-Guiltiness to Adultery 2 Samuel 11:14-27 Joab must have smiled grimly to himself when he received his master's letter. “This king of ours can sing psalms with the best, but I have...
2 Samuel 11:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the whole of the Old Testament literature there is no chapter more tragic or full of solemn and searching warning than this. Carefully pondering it, we notice the downward steps logically followi...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(14) В¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. (15) And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest...
2 Samuel 11:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 wicke...
2 Samuel 11:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah. Ver. 14. David wrote a letter. ] Not with black, but with blood. Sic ex vitio vitium gig...
2 Samuel 11:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The account with Ammon had by no means been settled, and in the Spring David sent Joab and the armies of Israel to battle the Ammonites and to besiege their capital city, of Rabbah. We are told speci...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

David Causes Uriah to Be Slain; David Informed of Uriah's Death. B. C. 1037. 14 And it...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
2 Samuel 11:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 11:1 . “After the year,” etc., rather, at the return of the year, i.e. , in the spring when kings were accustomed to begin military operations. “His se...
2 Samuel 11:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 11:1 . When kings go forth to war. After the latter rain, early in May, when the campaign could open, and when the main of their harvest was saved. Rabbah was the capital of the Ammonit...
2 Samuel 11:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

And it came to pass in an eventide. The fall and punishment of David illustrated I. The circumstances of David previous to His fall. For several years he had been in a state of great trouble: B...
2 Samuel 11:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 11:1 After the year was expired; Hebrew and Revised Version, at the return of the year; that is, as Josephus paraphrases it, "the next spring." It seems quite certai...
2 Samuel 11:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. His first plan having failed, his sin-darkened heart now made ready to add murder to adultery.
2 Samuel 11:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 21:8-10 ; Jeremiah 17:9 ; Jeremiah 9:1-4 ; Micah 7:3-5 ; Psalms 19:13 ; Psalms 52:2 ; Psalms 62:9

2 Samuel 11:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 11:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 11:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 11:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 11:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 11:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 11:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 11:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 11:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 11:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 11:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 11:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge