2 Samuel 11:21
Who killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' Then you must answer, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'”
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22So the messenger left and went to David and told him everything that Joab had sent him to say.
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Judges 7:1Then Jerub Baal (that is, Gideon) rose up early, and all the people who were with him, and they encamped beside the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was to their north in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
Judges 9:53But a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and it cracked his skull.
2 Samuel 3:34Your hands were not bound. 2 Your feet were not shackled. 1 As a man falls before the sons of injustice, so you have fallen.” Once more all the people wept over him.
Isaiah 14:10They all will speak and say to you, 1 'You have become as weak as us. You have become like us. 1
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 11:15-27
David Causes Uriah to Be Slain; David Informed of Uriah's Death. ( b. c. 1037.) 14 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 battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with… Read the whole commentary →