And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
Ver. 12. Tarry here today also.] All this was the worse in David, because done upon deliberation, and in cold blood, seeking a cover for his sin, plotting and ploughing up further wickedness, not leaving till he had wiped off all his comfortables. Psa 51:1-19 Take heed that your hearts be not hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, Heb 3:13 those sensual sins especially, - those "fleshly lusts that war against the soul," 1Pe 2:11 that "take away the heart," Hos 4:11 that disable nature, and so set it in a far greater distance from grace, which is seated in the powers of nature.