And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass in the morning,.... When David was informed that Uriah did not go to his own house, but slept with his servants, Satan put it into his head and heart to take the following wicked…
Adam Clarke
David wrote a letter - This was the sum of treachery and villany. He made this most noble man the carrier of letters which prescribed the mode in which he was to be murdered. This case some have…
When David's project of fathering the child upon Uriah himself failed, so that, in process of time, Uriah would certainly know the wrong that had been done him, to prevent the fruits of his revenge,…
David's letter to Joab. Uriah's death
14. sent it by the hand of Uriah So in the Greek story Proetus sent Bellerophon to Jobates with his own death-warrant. Cp. Hom. Il.VI. 168, 169.
"Slay him he…
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