2 Samuel 11:21
Who stroke Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went all of you nigh the wall? then say you, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
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22So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
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Judges 7:1Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges 9:53And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
2 Samuel 3:34Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters: as a man falls before wicked men, so fell you. And all the people wept again over him.
Isaiah 14:10All they shall speak and say unto you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like unto us?
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 →