2 Samuel 11:6
So David sent a message to Joab, telling him, “Send Uriah the Hittite to me.” Joab sent him to David.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
In Context
5Bathsheba became pregnant and sent a message to David to tell him, “I'm pregnant.”
Cross References
Genesis 38:18“What guarantee do I have to give you?” he asked. “Your signet seal and its cord, and your walking stick that you're holding,” she replied. He handed them over to her. He slept with her and she became pregnant.
Job 20:12Though evil tastes sweet in their mouths and they hide it under their tongues,
Isaiah 29:13The Lord says, “These people come and praise me with their words, and honor me with lip service, but their thoughts are miles away. Their worship of me only consists of them following rules people have taught them.
Matthew 26:72Once again he denied it, saying with an oath, “I don't know him.”
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 11:2-6
David's Sin with Bath-sheba. ( b. c. 1037.) 1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. 2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look… Read the whole commentary →