Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 11:7
And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded [of him] how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
6 13. Uriah summoned to Jerusalem
7. David demanded, &c.] David sent for Uriah ostensibly to bring him word about the progress of the war. Uriah, as one of the “mighty men,” no doubt held some command in the army.
demanded ] Rather, asked. The use of demand, like Fr. demander, meaning simply ‘to ask,’ is an archaism.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
David was forced to stoop to falsehood and dissimulation in the vain hope of hiding his sin.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Frivolous questions, which any common messenger could have answered; which probably made Uriah suspect that there was some other secret cause why he was sent for. And he might understand something, either by Davids messengers, 2Sa 11:4, or by some of his own family, concerning her being sent for to the court; which, together with other circumstances, might give him cause of further suspicion. Yet such might be the questions (though not here particularly mentioned) concerning those heads, as every private person might not be acquainted with, nor able to resolve, but such only as were acquainted with the counsel of war.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And when Uriah was come unto him,…. To David, to whom he came first, before he went to his own house, desirous of knowing what was the special business of the king with him:
David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered; he asked of the welfare of Joab the general, and of the common soldiers, and of the warriors, as the Targum, the mighty men that went along with Joab, 2Sa 10:7. David seems to have been at a loss what to say to him. These questions were so mean and trivial, that it might justly give Uriah some suspicion that it could never he on this account, that he was sent for; since David could not want intelligence of such things, expresses being daily sending him.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Sa 11:7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded [of him] how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
Ver. 7. How Joab did, and how the people did. ] David was but a bungler at committing and covering his sin. Lust was but a stranger to him, as Peter Martyr observeth from that passage in Nathan’s parable. 2Sa 12:4 What poor queries were these to put to such a man as Uriah! What weak pretences for fetching him home from such a service! Might not a meaner man have made as good a messenger? Some conceive that Uriah hereupon began to suspect somewhat, and to grow jealous of his beautiful wife, so that he would not come at her.
And how the war prospered.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
how Joab did: Heb. of the peace of Joab, Gen 29:6, Gen 37:14, 1Sa 17:22
Reciprocal: Exo 18:7 – welfare