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New American Standard Bible

2 Samuel 11:18

Then Joab sent a messenger and reported to David all the events of the war.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Joab;   Lasciviousness;   Uriah;   Thompson Chain Reference - David;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Uriah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bathsheba;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lie, Lying;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Hareth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Joab;   Marriage;   Samuel, Books of;   Uriah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Uriah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bathsheba;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Nimrod;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joab;   Samuel, Books of;  

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

Contextual Overview

14 So in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 He had written in the letter the following: "Station Uriah on the front line of the fiercest battle and pull back from him, so that he may be struck and killed." 16 So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he stationed Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 And the men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David's servants fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died. 18 Then Joab sent a messenger and reported to David all the events of the war.19 He ordered the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king, 20 then it shall be that if the king's wrath rises and he says to you, 'Why did you move against the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 'Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did a woman not throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did you move against the wall?'—then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'" 22 So the messenger departed and came and reported to David everything that Joab had sent him to tell. 23 The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 10:8 - there came

Cross-References

Luke 3:35
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Heber, the son of Shelah,

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.


 
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