7And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
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And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
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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