At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
Parallel translations
- WEB David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.
- KJV And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
- NKJV Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.
- NASB Then David sent word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.
- NLT Then David sent word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
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Quick answer
David orders Joab to send Uriah back from the front. He begins scheming to conceal his sin.
Overview
Rather than repenting, David devises a plan to make Uriah appear to be the child's father. He bends his military command structure to serve his cover-up. The verse shows sin's downward pull, as the attempt to hide wrongdoing draws David into deeper deception.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- Gen 38:18–23“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- Matt 26:70But he denied it before them all: “I do not know what you are talking about.”
- 1 Sam 15:30“I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.”
- Gen 4:7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
- Matt 26:72And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man!”
- Matt 26:74At that he began to curse and swear to them, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.
- Job 20:12–14Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
- Isa 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
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God's covenant with David — a son whose throne and kingdom would last forever (7:12–16) — finds its yes in Jesus, the Son of David who reigns without end.
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