Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 11:10
And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey? why [then] didst thou not go down unto thine house?
10. Camest thou not from thy journey ] Better, Art not thou come from a journey? David expresses surprise and displeasure that Uriah had not done as men usually do on their return from a journey, and gone to his own home. Uriah’s brave resolution not to enjoy the comforts of his home even for a single night, while his comrades were enduring the hardships of a campaign, bade fair to frustrate David’s scheme for concealing his sin. He may too have had some suspicion of his wife’s unfaithfulness.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 10. Camest thou not from thy journey?] It is not thy duty to keep watch or guard; thou art come from a journey, and needest rest and refreshment.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
When they had told David; whether of their own accord, or being first asked by David, it doth not appear.
Camest thou not from thy journey, wearied with hard service and travel, and therefore didst need refreshment? nor did I expect or desire that thou shouldst now attend upon my person, or keep the watch.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And when they had told David,…. The next morning, either those that went with the mess of meat, or the guards with whom he slept all night:
saying, Uriah went not down to his house; as the king had ordered him; which those persons being acquainted with, informed him of it, as an act of disobedience to him:
David said unto Uriah; having sent for him upon the above information:
camest thou not from [thy] journey? and which was a long one of sixty four miles, as before observed and therefore might well be weary, and want refreshment and rest, and his own house was the most proper place for it; for which reason David suggests he had sent him thither, and did not require nor need his service among his guards:
why [then] didst thou not go down unto thine house? which was the fittest place for him in such circumstances.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(10) And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house? (11) And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. (12) And David said to Uriah, Tarry here today also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow. (13) And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
By the servants telling David of Uriah’s not going to his house, it seems they were in the plot; and, no doubt, someone, at least, must have been privy to David’s vileness with Bath-sheba. But David, still going on in a progression of evil, now reasons with Uriah on the subject. And, had not sin exceedingly, for the time, hardened his heart, the speech of Uriah was enough to have stung him to the soul. Still, however, bent on this dreadful business, David contrives a more effectual method, as he thought. For this purpose he brings him to his table, makes him drunk, that he might be the more unconscious what he did, hoping that this would effectually answer the design. But here again, no doubt the Lord’s hand overruling, Uriah went not down to his house.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
2Sa 11:10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey? why [then] didst thou not go down unto thine house?
Ver. 10. And when they had told David. ] They, that is, his corycaei, his brokers; such as was that hangby, Hiram the Adullamite.
Why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: 2Sa 12:1 – unto David
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 11:10. David said, Camest thou not from thy journey? Wearied with hard service and travel; nor did I expect or desire that thou shouldest now attend upon my person: or keep watch among my guards. He still artfully pretends kindness to him, and great care of him.