"Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devo…" — 2 Samuel 11:25

2 Samuel 11:25 · KJV

“Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. {displease...: Heb. be evil in thine eyes} {one...: Heb. so and such}”

— 2 Samuel 11:25

Verse 24

And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and {some} of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Verse 26

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2 Samuel 11 — Context

And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.

And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and {some} of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. {displease...: Heb. be evil in thine eyes} {one...: Heb. so and such}

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. {displeased: Heb. was evil in the eyes of}

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:1-3

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, {are} in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred {by} all {that is} before them. {I considered...: Heb. I gave, or, set to my heart}

Joshua 7:8-9

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! {backs: Heb. necks}

2 Samuel 12:26

And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

1 Samuel 6:9

And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, {then} he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that {it is} not his hand {that} smote us: it {was} a chance {that} happened to us. {he: or, it}

Ecclesiastes 9:11-12

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race {is} not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

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