2 Samuel 11:14 (BSB)

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

From 2 Samuel 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:14

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:14-27: When David's project of fathering the child upon Uriah himself failed, so that, in process of time, Uriah would certainly know the wrong that had been done him, to prevent the fruits of his revenge, the devil put it into David's heart to take him off, and then neither he nor Bath-sheba would be in any danger (what prosecution could there be when there was...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 11:14: And it came to pass in the morning,.... When David was informed that Uriah did not go to his own house, but slept with his servants, Satan put it into his head and heart to take the following wicked and cruel method: that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah; to have him cut off by the sword of the enemy.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on 2 Samuel 11:14: URIAH SLAIN. (Sa2 11:14-27) David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah . . . Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle--The various arts and stratagems by which the king tried to cajole Uriah, till at last he resorted to the horrid crime of murder--the cold-blooded cruelty of despatching the letter by the hands of the...
• Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on 2 Samuel 11:14: David wrote a letter - This was the sum of treachery and villany. He made this most noble man the carrier of letters which prescribed the mode in which he was to be murdered. This case some have likened to that of Bellerophon, son of Glaucus, king of Ephyra, who being in the court of Proetus, king of the Argives, his queen Antia, or as...