fet her See note on ch. 2 Samuel 9:5.
But the thing that David had done displeased theLord] The divine sentence on David's conduct prepares the way for the mission of Nathan in the next chapter.
Verse 2 Samuel 11:27. _WHEN THE MOURNING WAS PAST_] Probably it lasted only _seven days_. _SHE BECAME HIS WIFE_] This hurried marriage was no doubt intended on both sides to cover the pregnancy. _B...
III. DAVID'S SIN, CHASTISEMENT AND RESTORATION 1. David's Great Sin CHAPTER 11 _ 1. David's great sin (2 Samuel 11:1)_ 2. David sends for Uriah (2 Samuel 11:6) 3. The murder of Uriah (2
SAM 11. DAVID, BATH-SHEBA, AND URIAH (J). 2 SAMUEL 11:1. In the spring, at the beginning of the season suitable for military operations, Joab and the army set out to besiege Rabbah (Jeremiah 49:2 *);...
SENT. Not till nine months after. THE _ LORD_. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4....
_2 SAMUEL 11:26_. S_HE MOURNED FOR HER HUSBAND,_ &C.— This mourning is generally supposed to have been the keeping of a fast for seven days successively; eating nothing each day till the sun was set....
_Bathsheba Becomes David's Wife._ 2 Samuel 11:22-27 22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. 23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed a...
DAVID AND BATHSHEBA This narrative is of the greatest value. It shows the faithfulness and the high morality of the historian, who relates, without a single attempt at palliation, this scandalous chap...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 11 DAVID AND BATHSHEBA V1 The next spring came. Kings usually went to fight wars during springtime. David sent Joab out with David...
BARE HIM A SON. — Several months must have passed since the beginning of David’s course of sin, and as yet his conscience had not brought him to a sense of what he had done, nor had the prophet Nathan...
וַ יַּעֲבֹ֣ר הָ אֵ֗בֶל וַ יִּשְׁלַ֨ח דָּוִ֜ד
CHAPTER XIV. _ DAVID AND URIAH._ 2 Samuel 11:1. HOW ardently would most, if not all readers, of the life of David have wished that it had ended before this chapter! Its golden era has passed away, a...
ADDING BLOOD-GUILTINESS TO ADULTERY 2 Samuel 11:14 Joab must have smiled grimly to himself when he received his master's letter. “This king of ours can sing psalms with the best, but I have to do his...
In the whole of the Old Testament literature there is no chapter more tragic or full of solemn and searching warning than this. Carefully pondering it, we notice the downward steps logically following...
Lord; not that David had married the woman, but on account of his former conduct towards her and her husband. (Menochius) --- The canon law forbids the marriages of those who have been accomplices in...
(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. The speedy marriage, a...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
_THE AWFUL LAPSE_ ‘The thing that David had done displeased the Lord.’ 2 Samuel 11:27 David’s career thus far had been one of singular excellence and attractiveness—not without great weaknesses, an...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13. The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings go...
AND WHEN THE MOURNING WAS PAST,.... The seven days were at an end, or sooner; for he stayed not ninety days from the death of her husband, which the Jews in later times enjoined n, that it might be kn...
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 mou...
_When the mourning was past_ Which commonly continued only the space of seven days, 1 Samuel 31:13; nor could the nature of the thing admit of longer delay, lest the too early birth of the child shoul...
1 While Ioab besieged Rabbah, Dauid committeth adulterie with Bath-sheba. 6 Vriah sent for by Dauid to couer the adulterie, would not goe home neither sober nor drunken. 14 Hee carieth to Ioab the l...
And when the mourning was past, David, still with the same passionate desire for the woman as before, SENT AND FETCHED HER TO HIS HOUSE, AND SHE BECAME HIS WIFE, AND BARE HIM A SON, the child begotten...
David's Murder of Uriah...
The account with Ammon had by no means been settled, and in the Spring David sent Joab and the armies of Israel to battle the Ammonites and to besiege their capital city, of Rabbah. We are told specif...
DISPLEASED: _ Heb._ was evil in the eyes of...
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 ev...
WHEN THE MOURNING WAS PAST; which was seven days, GENESIS 1:10 1 SAMUEL 31:13. Nor could the nature of the thing admit of longer delay lest the too early birth of the child might discover David's sin....
2 Samuel 11:27 mourning H60 over H5674 (H8799) David H1732 sent H7971 (H8799) brought H622 (H8799) house...
2 Samuel 11:27 Such is the solemn qualification which the Holy Scriptures append to a record of successful wickedness. The words afford a testimony to the perfect insight of God into our hearts and l...
CONTENTS: David's great sin. CHARACTERS: David, Uriah, Bathsheba, Joab. CONCLUSION: A Christian with natural tendencies to sensuality may have cravings even when the general bent of his mind is to li...
2 Samuel 11:1. _When kings go forth to war._ After the latter rain, early in May, when the campaign could open, and when the main of their harvest was saved. _Rabbah_ was the capital of the Ammonites,...
_But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord._ THE UNIVERSAL INSECURITY OF RELIGIOUS PERSEVERANCE The transaction is recorded at length in the chapter which contains the text; and the conc...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:26 The MOURNING period was probably seven days (Genesis 50:10;...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 11:1. “AFTER THE YEAR,” etc., rather, _at the return of the year, i.e._, in the spring when kings were accustomed to begin military operations. “HIS SERVANTS,”...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 11:1 AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED; Hebrew and Revised Version, _at the return of the year; _that is, as Josephus paraphrases it, "the next spring." It seems quite certain that the w...
Now in chapter eleven. It came to pass, after these things that Joab, and the army in the springtime when it was a good time to go out and fight, after the winter rains were over, Joab with the forces...
1 Chronicles 21:7; 2 Samuel 12:9; 2 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 5:13;...
The mourning — Which was seven days. Nor could the nature of the thing admit of longer delay, lest the too early birth of the child might discover David's sin. Bare a son — By which it appears, That D...