Second Book of Samuel (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... of telling the matters of the war unto the king, 20 and if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did 21 fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did riot a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, 22 Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him 23 for. And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we 24 were upon them even unto the entering of the gate. And the 14--17. David's letter to Joab. Uriah's death. 15. So blinded was David by his passion, 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. 16. observed the city B.V. kept watch upon the city, i.e. besieged it. a place &c Uriah was posted opposite the most strongly guarded part of the city, where the fighting was likely to be fiercest in case of a sally. 17. went out made a sally, in which, as the messenger describes vv. 23, 24), the men of Israel imprudently pursued the enemy till they were within shot of the archers on the wall, and suffered considerable loss. there fell &c I B.V., there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David. 18--25. News of Uriah's death carried to David. 19. the matters of the war B.V. all the things concerning the war, as in v. 18. 20. Joab assumes that David would find fault with him until he knew that his commission was executed. 21. See Jud. ix. 50--54. Jerubbesheth Jerubbaal or Gid...