2 Samuel 11:18

THE MESSAGE

Joab sent David a full report on the battle. He instructed the messenger, "After you have given to the king a detailed report on the battle, if he flares in anger, say, ‘And by the way, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.'"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Joab sent someone to report to David all the details of the battle.

Hebrew Names Version
Then Yo'av sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

King James Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Lexham English Bible
Joab sent and told David all of the news of the battle.

English Standard Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.

New Century Version
Then Joab sent David a complete account of the war.

New English Translation
Then Joab sent a full battle report to David.

Amplified Bible
Then Joab sent word and informed David of all the events of the war.

New American Standard Bible
Then Joab sent a messenger and reported to David all the events of the war.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ioab sent and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joab sent and told David all the events of the war.

Contemporary English Version
Joab sent a messenger to tell David everything that was happening in the war.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yo'av sent a message to David reporting all the news concerning the war,

Darby Translation
Then Joab sent and told David all the matters of the war;

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joab sent a report to David about what happened in the battle.

George Lamsa Translation
Then Joab sent and told David all that took place in the battle:

Good News Translation
Then Joab sent a report to David telling him about the battle,

Literal Translation
And Joab sent and told David all the matters of the war.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sent Ioab, and caused to tell ye kynge all the matter concernynge the battayll,

American Standard Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Bible in Basic English
Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the thinges concerning the warre:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

King James Version (1611)
Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the things concerning the warre:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joab sent, and reported to David all the events of the war, so as to tell them to the king.

English Revised Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Berean Standard Bible
Joab sent to David a full account of the battle

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Joab sente, and telde alle the wordis of the batel;

Young's Literal Translation
And Joab sendeth and declareth to David all the matters of the war,

Update Bible Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

World English Bible
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

New King James Version
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,

New Living Translation
Then Joab sent a battle report to David.

New Life Bible
Then Joab sent a man with news to David to tell him all about the war.

New Revised Standard
Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joab sent and told David all the news of the battle;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.

Revised Standard Version
Then Jo'ab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In the letter he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front lines where the fighting is the fiercest. Then pull back and leave him exposed so that he's sure to be killed." ¹⁶So Joab, holding the city under siege, put Uriah in a place where he knew there were fierce enemy fighters. When the city's defenders came out to fight Joab, some of David's soldiers were killed, including Uriah the Hittite. ¹⁸Joab sent David a full report on the battle. He instructed the messenger, "After you have given to the king a detailed report on the battle, if he flares in anger, say, ‘And by the way, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.'" ²²Joab's messenger arrived in Jerusalem and gave the king a full report. He said, "The enemy was too much for us. They advanced on us in the open field, and we pushed them back to the city gate. But then arrows came hot and heavy on us from the city wall, and eighteen of the king's soldiers died." ²⁵ When the messenger completed his report of the battle, David got angry at Joab. He vented it on the messenger: "Why did you get so close to the city? Didn't you know you'd be attacked from the wall? Didn't you remember how Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth got killed? Wasn't it a woman who dropped a millstone on him from the wall and crushed him at Thebez? Why did you go close to the wall!" "By the way," said Joab's messenger, "your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead." Then David told the messenger, "Oh. I see. Tell Joab, ‘Don't trouble yourself over this. War kills—sometimes one, sometimes another—you never know who's next. Redouble your assault on the city and destroy it.' Encourage Joab." ²⁶When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she grieved for her husband. When the time of mourning was over, David sent someone to bring her to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. But God was not at all pleased with what David had done,

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Joab sent,.... Messengers to David, as soon as Uriah was killed:

and told David all the things concerning the war; how the siege had been carried on; what success they had had, good or ill; what their advantages and disadvantages; what men they had lost, and especially in one sally of the enemy upon them, for the sake of which the express was sent.