John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 11:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? etc.] The same with Jerubbaal, who was Gideon, (<070632>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 (<070952>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.

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