SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:21
¿Quién hirió a Abimelec hijo de Jerobaal? ¿No echó una mujer del muro un pedazo de una rueda de molino, y murió en Tebes? ¿Por qué os llegasteis al muro? Entonces tú le dirás: También tu siervo Urías heteo es muerto.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth ? etc.] The same with Jerubbaal, who was Gideon, ( Judges 6:32); Baal, one part of his name, was the name of an idol, and sometimes called Bosheth or Besheth, which signifies shame, being a shameful idol; Gideon had a son called Abimelech, who was smitten, and it is here asked, by whom? did not a woman cast a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez ? which should have been a warning not to go too near the wall of an enemy; the history is recorded in ( Judges 9:52,53); why went ye nigh the wall ? exposing your lives to so much danger, and by which so many lives were lost: then say thou, thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also ; the whole has not been told, the worst of all is, as the messenger was to represent it, that brave gallant soldier Uriah is dead; this Joab ordered to be told last, as knowing very well it would pacify the king’s wrath, and was the agreeable news he wanted to hear.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-27 - Adulteries often occasion murders, and one wickedness is sought to be covered by another. The beginnings of sin are much to be dreaded; for who knows where they will end? Can a real believer ever tread thi path? Can such a person be indeed a child of God? Though grace be no lost in such an awful case, the assurance and consolation of it must be suspended. All David's life, spirituality, and comfort in religion, we may be sure were lost. No man in such a case can have evidence to be satisfied that he is a believer. The higher a man's confidence is, wh has sunk in wickedness, the greater his presumption and hypocrisy. Le not any one who resembles David in nothing but his transgressions bolster up his confidence with this example. Let him follow David in his humiliation, repentance, and his other eminent graces, before he thinks himself only a backslider, and not a hypocrite. Let no oppose of the truth say, These are the fruits of faith! No; they are the effects of corrupt nature. Let us all watch against the beginnings of self-indulgence, and keep at the utmost distance from all evil. But with the Lord there is mercy and plenteous redemption. He will cast ou no humble, penitent believer; nor will he suffer Satan to pluck his sheep out of his hand. Yet the Lord will recover his people, in such way as will mark his abhorrence of their crimes, to hinder all wh regard his word from abusing the encouragements of his mercy __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
מי 4310 הכה 5221 את 853 אבימלך 40 בן 1121 ירבשׁת 3380 הלוא 3808 אשׁה 802 השׁליכה 7993 עליו 5921 פלח 6400 רכב 7393 מעל 5921 החומה 2346 וימת 4191 בתבץ 8405 למה 4100 נגשׁתם 5066 אל 413 החומה 2346 ואמרת 559 גם 1571 עבדך 5650 אוריה 223 החתי 2850 מת׃ 4191
