But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
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Gill's Exposition
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord,.... The bodyguards, which were placed there to watch the palace in the night season; Uriah first fell into a…
Adam Clarke
Slept at the door - That is, in one of the apartments or niches in the court of the king's house. But in Bengal servants and others generally sleep on the verandahs or porches in face of their…
Uriah, we may suppose, had now been absent from his wife some weeks, making the campaign in the country of the Ammonites, and not intending to return till the end of it. The situation of his wife…
Cambridge Bible
Uriah slept at the door of the king's house Probably in the guard chamber in the outer court. Cp. 1Ki 14:27-28.