King James Version
2 Samuel 11:22 in the King James Version says “So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.”
2 Samuel 11:22 · KJV
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.
So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.
And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“So the messenger”
H4397a messenger; specifically, of god, i.e., an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
“and shewed”
H5046properly, to front, i.e., stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to
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)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
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