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CHAPTER XI
_David sends Joab against the Ammonites, who besieges the city_
_of Rabbah_, 1.
_He sees Bath-sheba, the wife of Uriah, bathing; is enamoured of_
_her; sends for and takes her to his be...
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AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED - The next spring after the escape of the
Ammonites into their city 2 Samuel 10:14.
THE CHILDREN OF AMMON - The marginal reference supplies the word
“the land of,” which is...
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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
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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 *);...
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2 Samuel 11:1. The siege of Rabbah
= 1 Chronicles 20:1
1. _after the year was expired_ Better, AT THE RETURN OF THE YEAR:
that is when spring set in with the commencement of the year in the
month Abi...
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AT THE TIME WHEN KINGS GO FORTH TO BATTLE— The author of the
_Observations_ remarks justly, that this passage seems to suppose,
that there was one particular time of the year, in this country, to
whic...
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2. David's Sin With Bathsheba, 2 Samuel 11:1-27.
_David's Sin With Bathsheba._ 2 Samuel 11:1-5
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when
kings go forth _to battle,_ that David...
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED, AT THE TIME WHEN
KINGS GO FORTH TO BATTLE, THAT DAVID SENT JOAB, AND HIS SERVANTS WITH
HIM, AND ALL ISRAEL; AND THEY DESTROYED THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,...
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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...
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AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED] RV 'at the return of the year,' i.e. in
the spring. WHEN KINGS GO FORTH _to battle_] In ancient times
hostilities ceased during the winter and began again in the spring.
DA...
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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...
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XI.
(1) AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED. — Literally, as in margin, _at the
return of the year._ This refers back to 2 Samuel 10:14. Joab had
spent the winter or rainy season at Jerusalem; now he returns t...
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וַ יְהִי֩ לִ תְשׁוּבַ֨ת הַ שָּׁנָ֜ה לְ
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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...
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GIVING REIN TO SELF-INDULGENCE
2 Samuel 11:1
This was not an isolated sin. For some time, backsliding had been
eating out David's heart. The cankerworm takes its toll before the
noble tree crashes to...
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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...
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And it came to pass, after the year was (a) expired, at the time when
kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants
with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Am...
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Year. Hebrew, "at the end of the year," (Chaldean; Syriac) which may
be explained either of the year after the preceding engagement, or at
the end of the civil year, in the autumnal equinox, (Calmet)...
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CONTENTS
This Chapter, which is still the prosecution of David's history,
exhibits him in so painful a light, that for the honour of human
nature, to say nothing of the honour of a child of God, we fe...
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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...
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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...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED,.... Or at the
end of the year, as the Targum, which concluded with the month Adar or
February, the spring of the year:
AT THE TIME WHEN KINGS GO...
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_And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when
kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants
with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon...
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_After the year was expired_ Hebrew, _at the return of the year:_ when
that year ended, and the next began, which was in the spring-time.
_When kings go forth to battle_ Which is, when the ground is f...
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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...
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And it came to pass, after the year was expired, literally, "at the
return of the year," when spring set in, when the close of the rainy
season made operations in the field possible, AT THE TIME WHEN...
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David's Adultery...
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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...
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AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED:
_ Heb._ at the return of the year...
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1-5 Observe the occasions of David's sin; what led to it. 1. Neglect
of his business. He tarried at Jerusalem. When we are out of the way
of our duty, we are in temptation. 2. Love of ease: idleness...
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2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 11 Whilst Joab besieged Rabbah David committeth
adultery with Bath-sheba, 2 SAMUEL 11:1. And hearing that she was with
child, he sendeth for Uriah her husband out of the camp, to cove...
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2 Samuel 11:1 spring H8666 year H8141 time H6256 kings H4428 (H8675)
H4397 out H3318 (H8800) David...
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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...
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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,...
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_The year was expired._
THE END OF THE OLD YEAR: A HELP TO BEGIN THE NEW ONE
I. The end of the year presents a fit opportunity to enquire how we
regard the Divine government. God governs the world a...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:1 The story of the Ammonite war
continues up through 2 Samuel 11:1 and concludes in...
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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,”...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 20:1; 1 Kings 20:22; 1 Kings 20:26; 2 Chronicles 36:10;...
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After — When that year ended, and the next begun, which was in the
spring time. When kings — Which is, when the ground is fit for the
march of soldiers, and brings forth provision for man and beast.
T...