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, ( 2 Samuel
10:7 ) ( 11:1 ) .
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.