撒母耳记下 11:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

從前擊殺了耶路．比設的兒子亞比米勒的是誰呢？不是一個婦人從城牆上把一塊磨石丟在他身上，他就死在提備斯嗎？你們為甚麼靠近城牆呢？’你就回答：‘王的僕人赫人烏利亞也死了。’”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
从 前 打 死 耶 路 比 设 （ 就 是 耶 路 巴 力 ， 见 士 师 记 九 章 一 节 ） 儿 子 亚 比 米 勒 的 是 谁 呢 ？ 岂 不 是 一 个 妇 人 从 城 上 抛 下 一 块 上 磨 石 来 ， 打 在 他 身 上 ， 他 就 死 在 提 备 斯 麽 ？ 你 们 为 甚 麽 挨 近 城 墙 呢 ？ 你 就 说 ： 王 的 仆 人 ─ 赫 人 乌 利 亚 也 死 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah. ¹⁵ In the letter David wrote, "Put Uriah on the front lines where the fighting is worst and leave him there alone. Let him be killed in battle." ¹⁶ Joab watched the city and saw where its strongest defenders were and put Uriah there. ¹⁷ When the men of the city came out to fight against Joab, some of David's men were killed. And Uriah the Hittite was one of them. ¹⁸ Then Joab sent David a complete account of the war. ¹⁹ Joab told the messenger, "Tell King David what happened in the war. ²⁰ After you finish, the king may be angry and ask, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the city wall? ²¹ Do you remember who killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth? It was a woman on the city wall. She threw a large stone for grinding grain on Abimelech and killed him there in Thebez. Why did you go so near the wall?' If King David asks that, tell him, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'" ²² The messenger left and went to David and told him everything Joab had told him to say. ²³ The messenger told David, "The men of Ammon were winning. They came out and attacked us in the field, but we fought them back to the city gate.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Abimelech: Judges 9:53

Jerubbesheth: Judges 6:32, Judges 7:1, Jerubbaal

Thy servant: 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 3:34, Psalms 39:8, Isaiah 14:10, Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 16:52

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 26:6 - Hittite 2 Samuel 11:16 - he assigned

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth?.... The same with Jerubbaal, who was Gideon, Judges 6:32; Baal, one part of his name, was the name of an idol, and sometimes called Bosheth or Besheth, which signifies shame, being a shameful idol; Gideon had a son called Abimelech, who was smitten, and it is here asked, by whom?

did not a woman cast a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? which should have been a warning not to go too near the wall of an enemy; the history is recorded in Judges 9:52;

why went ye nigh the wall? exposing your lives to so much danger, and by which so many lives were lost:

then say thou, thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also; the whole has not been told, the worst of all is, as the messenger was to represent it, that brave gallant soldier Uriah is dead; this Joab ordered to be told last, as knowing very well it would pacify the king's wrath, and was the agreeable news he wanted to hear.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who smote Abimelech ... - This reference indicates the existence in David’s time of the national annals of that period in an accessible form, and the king’s habit of reading, or having read to him, the history of his country. (Compare Esther 6:1.)