6And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)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 would bring to light the hidden works of darkness ; and when Uriah, at his return, should find how he had been abused, and by whom, it might well be expected, 1. That he would prosecute his wife, accordin…
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