2 Samuel 11:12

12 David said to Uriah, "Remain here {today}, and tomorrow I will send you away." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem on that day and the next.

2 Samuel 11:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 11:12

And David said to Uriah, tarry here today also
In his court, when he found he could not persuade him to go to his own house:

and tomorrow I will let thee depart:
after he had tried one method more with him:

so Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow;
not in his own house, but the king's palace.

2 Samuel 11:12 In-Context

10 They told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house." David said to Uriah, "[Are] you not coming from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"

11 Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah [are] living in the booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord [are] camping on the surface of the open field; and I, shall I go to my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? [By] your life and the life of your soul, I surely will not do this thing."

12 David said to Uriah, "Remain here {today}, and tomorrow I will send you away." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem on that day and the next.

13 David invited him, and he ate and drank in his presence {so that he became drunk}, and he went out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

14 And it happened in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and he sent it by the hand of Uriah.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "also the day"