撒母耳记下 11:25

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

大衛對那使者說：“你要對約押這樣說：‘不要為這件事難過，因為刀劍有時吞滅這人，有時吞滅那人。你只要加緊攻打這城，把城毀滅。’你要這樣鼓勵他。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
王 向 使 者 说 ： 你 告 诉 约 押 说 ： 不 要 因 这 事 愁 闷 ， 刀 剑 或 吞 灭 这 人 或 吞 灭 那 人 ， 没 有 一 定 的 ； 你 只 管 竭 力 攻 城 ， 将 城 倾 覆 。 可 以 用 这 话 勉 励 约 押 。

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

displease thee: Heb. be evil in thine eyes

for the sword: Joshua 7:8, Joshua 7:9, 1 Samuel 6:9, Ecclesiastes 9:1-3, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Ecclesiastes 9:12

one: Heb. so and such, What abominable hypocrisy was here! He well knew that the death of this noble and gallant man was no chance-medley: he was by his own order thrust on the sword.

make: 2 Samuel 12:26

Reciprocal: Judges 20:22 - encouraged 2 Samuel 2:26 - sword 2 Samuel 12:1 - unto David 2 Samuel 14:14 - we must 1 Kings 21:16 - Ahab rose up

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then David said to the messenger,.... Whom he dispatched again to Joab upon the delivery of his message:

thus shall thou say to Joab; in the name of David:

let not this thing displease thee; be not grieved, and cast down, and intimidated at the repulse he had met with, and the loss of so many brave men, and especially Uriah;

for the sword devours one as well as another; officers as well as soldiers the strong as well as the weak, the valiant and courageous as well as the more timorous; the events of war are various and uncertain, and to be submitted to, and not repined at, and laid to heart. David's heart being hardened by sin, made light of the death of his brave soldiers, to which he himself was accessory; his conscience was very different now from what it was when he cut off the skirt of Saul's robe, and his heart in a different frame from that in which he composed the lamentation over Saul and Jonathan:

make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it; more closely besiege it, more vigorously attack it; assault it, endeavour to take it by storm, and utterly destroy it, razing the very foundations of it: and encourage thou him; which words are either said to the messenger to encourage and animate Joab in David's name, which is not so likely that a messenger should be employed to encourage the general; or rather the words of David to Joab continued, that he would "encourage it", the army under him, who might be disheartened with the rebuff and loss they had met with; and therefore Joab is bid to spirit them up, to carry on the siege with vigour.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 11:25. The sword devoureth one as well as another — What abominable hypocrisy was here! He well knew that Uriah's death was no chance-medley; he was by his own order thrust on the edge of the sword.