2 Samuel 11:10 (BSB)

And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”

From 2 Samuel 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:10

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:6-13: Uriah, we may suppose, had now been absent from his wife some weeks, making the campaign in the country of the Ammonites, and not intending to return till the end of it. The situation of his wife would bring to light the hidden works of darkness; and when Uriah, at his return, should find how he had been abused, and by whom, it might well be expected, 1.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 11:10: And when they had told David,.... The next morning, either those that went with the mess of meat, or the guards with whom he slept all night: saying, Uriah went not down to his house; as the king had ordered him; which those persons being acquainted with, informed him of it, as an act of disobedience to him: David said unto Uriah; having sent for...
  • Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on 2 Samuel 11:10: Camest thou not from thy journey? - It is not thy duty to keep watch or guard; thou art come from a journey, and needest rest and refreshment.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on 2 Samuel 11:10-12: 2Sa 11:10-12 When this was told to David (the next morning), he said to Uriah, “Didst thou not come from the way (i.e., from a journey)? why didst thou not go down (as men generally do when they return from a journey)?” Uriah replied (2Sa 11:11), “The ark (ark of the covenant),and Israel, and Judah, dwell in the huts, and my lord Joab and the...