THEOSIS2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 11:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were.
וַיְהִ֕י בִּשְׁמ֥וֹר יוֹאָ֖ב אֶל־הָעִ֑יר וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶת־א֣וּרִיָּ֔ה אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָדַ֔ע כִּ֥י אַנְשֵׁי־חַ֖יִל שָֽׁם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Hos 5:11Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.
- 2 Sam 3:27And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him there in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his brother.
- 2 Sam 11:21Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite is also slain.
- 2 Sam 20:9And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him.
- 2 Sam 20:10But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and he struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and gave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his brother pursued after Seba the son of Bochri.
- Prov 29:12A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.
- 1 Sam 22:17And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.
- 1 Sam 22:19And Nobe, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and ox, and ass, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.