“ And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. ”
And the woman conceived, and sent and (d) told David, and said, I [am] with child. (d) Fearing lest she be stoned according to the law.
Sam 11. David, Bath-sheba, and Uriah (J). 2 Samuel 11:1-5 . In the spring, at the beginning of the season suitable for military operations, Joab and the army set out to besiege Rabbah ( Jeremi...
sent and told : that David might shield her from the death penalty ( Leviticus 20:10 ).
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. And the woman conceived - A proof of the observation on 2 Samuel 11:4 ; as that is the time in which women are most apt...
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. The woman conceived, and sent and told David. Some immediate measures of concealing their sin were necessary, as w...
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...
Sent and told David. — Because her sin must now become known, and by the Law ( Leviticus 20:10 ) adulterers must both be punished with death.
CHAPTER XIV. DAVID AND URIAH. 2 Samuel 11:1-27 . 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...
Giving Rein to Self-Indulgence 2 Samuel 11:1-13 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 c...
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 followi...
(2) And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very be...
And the woman conceived ,.... Whereby the sin would be discovered, and shame, and disgrace, or worse, would follow upon it: and sent and told David, and said, I [am] with child ; this message she...
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I [am] with child. Ver. 5. And sent and told David. ] Chrysostom saith, She went to David, and said, O king, I am undone, I am with chil...
The woman conceived, and sent and told David She was afraid of infamy, and perhaps of the severity of her husband, who might cause her to be stoned. And therefore she prays David to consult her hon...
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 speci...
David's Sin with Bath-sheba. B. C. 1037. 1 And it came to pass, after the year was expir...
Consider therefore what to do for thy own honour, and for my safety, whom thou hast brought into a most shameful and dangerous condition.
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 se...
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 Ammonit...
And it came to pass in an eventide. The fall and punishment of David illustrated I. The circumstances of David previous to His fall. For several years he had been in a state of great trouble: B...
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 certai...
David's Adultery
Deuteronomy 22:22 ; Proverbs 6:34