2 Samuel 11:6

6 So David sent to Joab, "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

2 Samuel 11:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 11:6

And David sent to Joab
Who was with the army besieging Rabbah, which, according to Bunting ^F11, was sixty four miles from Jerusalem:

[saying], send me Uriah the Hittite;
the scheme David had contrived in his mind was to get Uriah home to his wife for a few days, that it might be thought the child she had conceived was his, whereby the sin of David, and her own, might be concealed:

and Joab sent Uriah to David;
not knowing his business, and besides it was his duty to obey his command.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Travels p. 146.

2 Samuel 11:6 In-Context

4 Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house.

5 The woman became pregnant, and she sent and told David, and she said, "I [am] pregnant."

6 So David sent to Joab, "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

7 Uriah came to him, and David asked {how Joab and the army fared and how the war was going}.

8 David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." So Uriah went out from the king's house, and a gift from the king went out after him.