14And 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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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. …
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-27)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, the devil put it into David’s heart to take him off, and then neither he nor Bath-sheba would be in any danger (what prosecution could there be when there was no prosecutor?), suggesting further that,…
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