2 Samuel 11:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

2 Samuel 11:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 5:12-14
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

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, according…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house--It is customary for servants to sleep in the porch or long gallery; and the guards of the Hebrew king did the same. Whatever his secret suspicions might have been, Uriah’s refusal to indulge in the enjoyment of domestic pleasure, and his determination to sleep “at the door of the king’s house,” arose from a high and honorable sense of military du…