And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
Ver. 26. She mourned for her husband.] Fictis lachrymis; there is little doubt to be made but that she was inwardly glad, considering her danger of being punished for an adulteress, and her hopes of being now made a queen: but if her great sin had come before her - as afterwards doubtless it did - she had cause enough to mourn with "the voice of a dove, tabering upon her breast," as Queen Huzzab. Nah 2:7