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2 Samuel 12:15-23

2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 Samuel 12:15 When the child falls ill, David hopes that the Lord might change his mind and let him live, so he petitions him with fasting. When the child died, David washed and anointed himself and ate, even though fasting and refraining from anointing were also part of ordinary mourning (1 Samuel 31:13; 2 Samuel 3:35; 2 Samuel 14:2). He has accepted the Lord’s final verdict, knowing that the child will not return to me.

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See also 2 Samuel 12:15-23 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE MESSAGE OF GOD AND DAVID'S CONFESSION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CHASTISEMENT CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The Lord's message through Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1)_ 2. David's anger (2 Samuel 12:5) 3. Thou art t...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    2 SAMUEL 12. DAVID'S REPENTANCE. CAPTURE OF RABBAH (J). The section concerning Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1_ a_) is sometimes regarded as a later addition by some one who was anxious to point out and emphasi...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Death of the Child 15. _strake_ An archaism for _struck._Cp. ch. 2 Samuel 20:10....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _God's Judgment._ 2 Samuel 12:7-23 7 And Nathan said to David, Thou _art_ the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND NATHAN DEPARTED UNTO HIS HOUSE. AND THE LORD STRUCK THE CHILD THAT URIAH'S WIFE BARE UNTO DAVID, AND IT WAS VERY SICK._ The Lord struck the child ... and it was very sick. The first visible chas...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:15 sick. (b-22) Or 'sick unto death.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID'S REPENTANCE AND PARDON. THE CAPTURE OF RABBAH 4. To dress for the wayfaring man] We may notice Eastern ideas of hospitality: cp. Genesis 18:3....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 12 NATHAN’S MESSAGE TO DAVID V1 The *Lord sent Nathan to David. Nathan went to David and he said, ‘Two men lived in a city. One ma...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּ֥לֶךְ נָתָ֖ן אֶל ־בֵּיתֹ֑ו וַ יִּגֹּ֣ף

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVI. _ PENITENCE AND CHASTISEMENT._ 2 Samuel 12:13. WHEN Nathan ended his message, plainly and strongly though he had spoken, David indicated no irritation, made no complaint against the pro...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ACCEPTING THE LORD'S JUDGMENT 2 Samuel 12:15 When Nathan had gone, David beat out his brief confession into Psalms 51:1. He knew that he was clean, because purged with hyssop, Exodus 12:22; that he w...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    A year passed away. The child of Bathsheba was born. We can imagine what that year had been to David. Bathsheba, whom in all probability he truly loved, was with him as his wife; but it is inevitable...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Of. Hebrew, "it was sick" (Calmet) of a fever._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND NATHAN DEPARTED UNTO HIS HOUSE,.... His own house, which probably was in the city of Jerusalem, having delivered his message, and brought David to a sense of his sin, and declared to him from the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. Ver. 15. _And the Lord struck the child._] As he might justly do, both for t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord struck the child_ With some sudden and dangerous distemper. _David besought God for the child_ Supposing the threatening might be conditional, and so the execution of it prevented by prayer....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Nathans parable of the Ewe lambe, causeth Dauid to be his owne Iudge. 7 Dauid, reproued by Nathan, confesseth his sinne and is pardoned. 15 Dauid mourneth and prayeth for the childe, while it liue...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Death of David's Child...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Nathan, having delivered the sentence of the Lord, DEPARTED UNTO HIS HOUSE. AND THE LORD STRUCK THE CHILD THAT URIAH'S WIFE BARE UNTO DAVID, the phrasing once more calling attention to the sin, AN...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    David did not immediately confess his sin to God, andPsalms 32:3 shows that the Lord waited for some time at least before sending the prophet Nathan to him, likely over nine months, for a son had been...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-25 David now penned the 51st Psalm, in which, though he had been assured that his sin was pardoned, he prays earnestly for pardon, and greatly laments his sin. He was willing to bear the shame of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD STRUCK THE CHILD with some sudden and dangerous distemper....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Samuel 12:15 Nathan H5416 departed H3212 (H8799) house H1004 LORD H3068 struck H5062 (H8799) child H3206 Uria

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David's rebuke and repentance. Birth of Solomon. Ammonite victory. CHARACTERS: God, David, Nathan, Bathsheba, Joab. CONCLUSION: If the believer, brought face to face with his sins sincerel...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Samuel 12:1. _The Lord sent Nathan to David._ The substance of the mission, the visitations he foretold, the perfect accomplishment of them, as well from that very day as in future ages, leaves not...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The child also that is born unto thee shall surely die._ GREAT TROUBLES FOLLOWING GREAT TRANSGRESSIONS David became a backslider. Men sometimes speak, not of David’s great sins, but of his great sin...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 12:14. “THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD TO BLASPHEME.” “Transgression of God’s command by the king himself must lead the heathen to heap shame and reproach on Israel a...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 12:1 JEHOVAH SENT NATHAN UNTO DAVID. Though David had remained unrepentant for nearly a year, for we read in 2 Samuel 12:14 that the child was born, yet we are not to suppose that...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    David thought that things were just going great until the prophet Nathan came to him. Nathan said to David, There is a man in your kingdom who is very wealthy, had many herds, many flocks many servant...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 25:38; 1 Samuel 26:10; 2 Chronicles 13:20; 2 Kings 15:5;...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    How could a loving God take the life of David’s child because of the sin of David? PROBLEM: As a result of David’s sin with Bathsheba, the life of the child that Bathsheba bore to David was taken. Ho...

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