📖WEB · 2 Samuel 11:17
What does 2 Samuel 11:17 mean?
"The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also."
— 2 Samuel 11:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
and he commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?
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