2 Samuel 11:27

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

Ver. 27. And when the mourning was past.] And long it lasted not; seven days Josephus saith was the ordinary time, but here more haste might be made. Theodoret saith there was little time given to mourning.

And she became his wife.] He marrieth her when with child, and as soon as he could with any honesty, as they say; in some hope thereby also to cover his sin.

And she bare him a son.] Of his own begetting, though before wedlock. Howbeit this was not all out so bad in some respects as that act of Augustus, who took Livia Drusilla from her husband Tiberius Nero, when she was great with child with Drusus, who proved an unhappy hackster, and came to an untimely end. a

But the thing that David had done.] All the whole business set down in this doleful chapter, displeased the Lord, and cost David very dearly, as shall appear in the next. b

a Sueton.

b Principium dulce est, sed finis amoris amarus.