The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
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The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.”
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And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
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And the shooters shot at thy servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 11:24 And the shooters shot from off the…
2Sa 11:24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and [some] of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
Ver. 24. And thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.] This the messenger maketh haste to tell, as that which would salve all; not staying till David should object as Josh had before conceived he would, and had accordingly devised a form of answer.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the shooters shot from off of the wall…
And the shooters shot from off of the wall upon thy servants,.... Arrows out of their bows, or stones out of their engines; the Israelites following them so closely to the gate of the city, came within the reach of their shot from the wall:
and some of the king's servants be dead; killed in the sally upon them, and by the shot from the wall:
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and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also; the messenger did not entirely obey the orders of Joab to wait and observe if the king's wrath arose, but was in haste to tell him the last piece of news; perhaps he had some suspicion, from the manner of Joab's telling him what he should say, that this would be acceptable to the king.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 24. Uriah the Hittite is dead also — The…
24. Uriah the Hittite is dead also — The messenger did not wait, as Joab directed, to announce Uriah’s death separately. His message was, like several other messages we have noticed, (2Sa_1:4; 1Sa_4:17,) climacteric, and Uriah’s death, as the most signal loss, is announced last. This messenger must have understood, however, that Uriah’s death was not afflictive to the king.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 their shooters shot
their shooters shot
"their shooters shot arrows"
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some of the king's servants were killed
This can be stated in active form. AT: "they killed some of the king's servants" (See: Active or Passive)
king's servants
Here "servants" refers to soldiers, not slaves, because soldiers were servants of the king.
your servant Uriah the Hittite was killed
This can be stated in active form. AT: "they killed your servant Uriah the Hittite" (See: Active or Passive)
for the sword devours one as well as another
Here "the sword" refers to a person who kills someone with sword. Also, killing someone with a sword is spoken of as if the sword were "eating" the people. AT: "for one man can be killed by a sword the same as another man" or "for any man can die in battle" (See: Metonymy and Metaphor)
Make your battle even stronger
"Fight even stronger"
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soldier
king
sword
devour
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