2 Samuel 11:26

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
wife	אֵ֣שֶׁת 'E.shet	H802	a woman · noun, common feminine singular construct
Uriah	אֽוּרִיָּ֔ה 'u.ri.Yah	H223	Urijah · proper noun, a man's name
heard	וַתִּשְׁמַע֙ va.tish.Ma'	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
Uriah	אוּרִיָּ֣ה 'u.ri.Yah	H223	Urijah · proper noun, a man's name
husband	אִישָׁ֑הּ 'i.Shah	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
dead	מֵ֖ת met	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
mourned	וַתִּסְפֹּ֖ד va.tis.Pod	H5594	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
husband	בַּעְלָֽהּ ba'.Lah	H1167	a master · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my fathe…
2 Samuel 3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. An…
2 Samuel 14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mour…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 11:14–end

When David's project of fathering the child upon Uriah himself failed, so that, in process of time, Uriah would certainly know the wrong that had been done him, to prevent the fruits of his revenge, the devil put it into David's heart to take him off, and then neither he nor Bath-sheba would be in any danger (what prosecution could there be when there was no prosecutor?), suggesting further that, when Uriah was out of the way, Bath-sheba might, if he pleased, be his own for ever. Adulteries have often occasioned murders, and one wickedness must be covered and secured with another. The beginnings of sin are therefore to be dreaded; for who knows where they will end? It is resolved in David's…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 11:14

URIAH SLAIN. (Sa2 11:14-27) David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah . . . Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle--The various arts and stratagems by which the king tried to cajole Uriah, till at last he resorted to the horrid crime of murder--the cold-blooded cruelty of despatching the letter by the hands of the gallant but much-wronged soldier himself, the enlistment of Joab to be a partaker of his sin, the heartless affectation of mourning, and the indecent haste of his marriage with Bath-sheba--have left an indelible stain upon the character of David, and exhibit a painfully humiliating proof of the awful lengths to which the best of men may go when th…

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Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 11:26

She mourned for her husband - The whole of her conduct indicates that she observed the form without feeling the power of sorrow. She lost a captain and got a king for her spouse; this must have been deep affliction indeed: and therefore: - - Lachrymas non sponte cadentes Effudit; gemitusque expressit pectore laeto. "She shed reluctant tears, and forced out groans from a joyful heart.

John Gill on 2 Samuel 11:26

Dictionary and topics

Chronicles, Books of — The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., “Acts of the Days.” This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version “Chronicon,” and hence…
David — Beloved, the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a man in humble life. His mother’s name is not recorded. Some think she was the Nahash of 2 Sam.…
Lasciviousness · .David — .David
Uriah · .David marries the widow of — .David marries the widow of

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Samuel 11:26

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 11:14–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 11:14

Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 11:26

John Gill on 2 Samuel 11:26

Dictionary and topics

2 Samuel 11:26

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 11:14–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 11:14

Adam Clarke on 2 Samuel 11:26

John Gill on 2 Samuel 11:26

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Samuel 11:2–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Samuel 11:25

Rashi on 2 Samuel 11:25