King James Version
2 Samuel 11:19 in the King James Version says “And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,”
2 Samuel 11:19 · KJV
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the messenger”
H4397a messenger; specifically, of god, i.e., an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
“When thou hast made an end”
H3615to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“the matters”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“of the war”
H4421a battle (i.e., the engagement); generally, war (i.e., war-fare)
“of telling”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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