2 Samuel 11:25
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shall you say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another: make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him.
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26And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
Cross References
Joshua 7:8O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
1 Samuel 6:9And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that stroke us: it was a chance that happened to us.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.
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 →