15<\/strong>. that he may be smitten, and die<\/em> ] So blinded was David by his passion, and so eager to screen himself and Bath-sheba from the disgrace of exposure, that he did not shrink from plotting the murder of one of his bravest soldiers. The King’s command was sufficient warrant to Joab, without inquiry into the reason for it.<\/p>\n So far is David from repenting upon these just and great occasions, that he seeks to cover one sin with another; and to hide his adultery with murder, even the murder of a most excellent person, and that in a most malicious and perfidious manner. <\/P> <\/p>\n And he wrote in the letter, saying<\/strong>,…. Giving the following orders to Joab:<\/p>\n set ye Uriah is the forefront of the hottest battle<\/strong>: over against that part of the city where the enemy was strongest, and the battle the fiercest, and the stones and arrows were cast the thickest:<\/p>\n and retire ye from him<\/strong>; leave him to himself to combat the enemy alone; who seeing him deserted, would sally out upon him, and the few that might be with him, and slay him:<\/p>\n that he may be smitten, and die<\/strong>; thus he sought to add murder to adultery, and that in the basest manner, and which he accomplished; and this is often the case, that murder follows adultery, either by way of revenge for it, or in order to cover it, as here.<\/p>\n (15) Retire ye from him.<\/strong>This part of Davids orders was not carried out. Perhaps Joab thought it would make the stratagem too evident, or perhaps it was impracticable. At all events, the consequence was that others were slain with Uriah, and thus a larger blood-guiltiness fell upon David.<\/p>\n 15<\/strong>. <\/strong> That he may be smitten <\/strong> By a similar device Saul had once sought the bringing about of David’s death. Comp. 1Sa 18:17 ; 1Sa 18:25<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2Sa 11:15<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And he wrote in the letter, saying, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> As I have been long of opinion, says Dr. Delaney, that the Greeks borrowed most, if not all their mythology, from the Sacred History; so I think the fable of Bellerophon is founded upon this story of Uriah. Bellerophon, <\/em>(who, as some scholiasts think, should be read Boulepheron, <\/em>a counsel-carrier,<\/em>) was a stranger at the court of Proetus, as Uriah, being an Hittite, <\/em>was at the court of David. He declined the solicitations of Sthenoboea, as Uriah did the bed of Bath-sheba; and was for that reason sent to Jobates, <\/em>general of Proetus’s army, with letters, which contained a direction to put him to death, as Uriah was sent to Joab, David’s general: and was sent by Jobates with a small guard upon an attack, in which it was intended he should be slain, as Uriah was by Joab to that in which he fell. The main course of the history is the same in both; and the variations such as might naturally be expected in fabulous embellishments. Hence it is, that the mythologist, not being tied to truth, thought himself bound, in point of poetic justice, to deliver the virtue of Bellerophon from the evil intended him: and so his history ends happily in this world; as I doubt not Uriah’s does in the next. See Banier’s Mythology, vol. 3: book 2: chap. 6 and Lavaux’s Conference de la Fable, <\/em>&c. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n 2Sa 11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Ver. 15. Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle.<\/strong> ] Here David schemes it indeed with hellish skill: little thinking how heavily this crimson sin would shortly lie upon his conscience, putting him to no less pain than if all his bones had been broken. Psa 51:8-14 Joab possibly might not know the cause of this bloody letter, but gather by it that Uriah had some way deserved death, howbeit he could not but know that by the law none should be put to death without witnesses, two or three, produced against him; his obedience, therefore, to so tyrannical a command cannot be justified.<\/p>\n Set ye: 2Sa 11:17, 1Sa 18:17, 1Sa 18:21, 1Sa 18:25, Psa 51:4, Psa 51:14, Jer 20:13 <\/p>\n hottest: Heb. strong <\/p>\n from him: Heb. from after him <\/p>\n and die: 2Sa 12:9 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 27:24 – General 2Sa 12:12 – secretly 2Sa 13:28 – commanded 2Sa 14:19 – of Joab 2Sa 16:7 – bloody man 1Ki 15:5 – save only 1Ki 21:8 – she wrote 1Ch 21:6 – Joab<\/p>\n 2Sa 11:15. Retire ye from him, that he may be smitten and die Thus swift is the progress of vice! thus does it lead from bad to worse! thus does it corrupt mans whole nature, and bring him to such degeneracy as he could not before have thought himself capable of! So far is David from repenting, that he seeks to cover one scandalous and wicked action by another still more scandalous and wicked; to conceal the great crime of adultery by the still greater crime of murder! How are the beginnings of sin to be dreaded! for who knows where they will end? David hath sinned, therefore Uriah must die. That innocent, valiant, gallant man, who was ready to die for his princes honour, must die by his princes hand! See how fleshly lusts war against the soul, and what devastation they make in that war! How they blind the eyes, sear the conscience, harden the heart, and destroy all sense of honour and justice! See the shameful and deplorable change which they have made in David. Is this the man whose heart smote him because he had cut off Sauls skirt? who more than once generously saved the life of his most bitter enemy when he had it in his power; but who is now using the basest contrivances to take away the life of a most worthy and faithful servant? Is this he that executed judgment and justice to all his people; and that exercised himself in Gods laws day and night, conscious what extraordinary favours he had received from him, and the infinite obligations he was under to him; the just, the generous, the pious David? Yes, this is the very man. Alas! how can he do such unjust and base actions? How can he be so ungrateful to his heavenly benefactor, as thus to transgress and trample under foot his law in the most capital of all its articles? How can he give such scandal and cause of stumbling to his subjects, whose piety and virtue he was appointed to promote? And how can he thus expose to contempt and reproach the true religion among the idolatrous nations all around? Alas! sin, through its deceitfulness, has gained entrance, and re-established its empire in his soul! Sin has produced this horrid transformation in the mind and heart of one of the bravest and worthiest of men. Reader, take warning, and withstand the first assaults of evil, lest, if they once prevail, they deprive thee of all religious and moral sense and feeling, and plunge thee into the greatest depth of guilt and baseness, to the present dishonour of God and religion, and thy own everlasting ruin and misery!<\/p>\n 11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, {h} Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.<\/p>\n (h) Except God continually uphold us with his mighty Spirit, the most perfect fall headlong into all vice and abomination.<\/p>\n And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 15. that he may be smitten, and die ] So blinded was David by his passion, and so eager to screen himself and Bath-sheba from the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 11:15”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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