Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Ver. 10. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house.] Never, that is, so long as thou livest, as 1Sa 1:22 Genesis 43:9. Or, which I like better, From one generation to another, even for many ages. And so this threatening was performed in the slaughter of Amnon, Absalom, Adonijah, the five sons of Jehoshaphat, 2Ch 21:17 all the sons of Joram except Ahaziah, afterwards killed also, 2Ch 22:7 all the king's seed killed by Athaliah but Joash, and he also afterwards by his servants, 2Ch 24:1-27 his son Amaziah slain, 2Ch 25:27 and Josiah, 2Ch 35:24 and the sons of Zedekiah. 2Ki 25:7 a
Because thou hast despised me.] In thinking to sin secretly, not considering mine all-seeing eye, nor caring though I looked on.
And hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite.] To conceal your adultery, and to cover your shame, which you mainly minded in that marriage, whereunto you made way by the murder of that good man.
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