What does 2 Samuel 11:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba,a the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
Verse 2 Samuel 11:3. _THE DAUGHTER OF ELIAM_] Called, 1 Chronicles 3:5, Ammiel; a word of the same meaning, _The people of my God, The God of my people_. This name expressed the covenant - _I will be...
ELIAM - Or Ammiel, 1 Chronicles 3:5, the component words being placed in an inverse order. Bath-sheba was the granddaughter of Ahithophel 2 Samuel 23:34....
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 Samuel 11...
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 *)...
BATH-SHEBA. Called Bath-shua, 1 Chronicles 3:5. ELIAM. Called "Ammiel", 1 Chronicles 3:5. The son of Ahithophel (2 Samuel 23:34). URIAH. One of David's faithful soldiers (2 Samuel 23:39. Married the...
David's adultery with Bath-sheba It is one object of Holy Scripture to paint sin in its true colours. No friendly flattery, no false modesty, draws a veil over this dark scene in David's life. It is...
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 Davi...
_AND DAVID SENT AND INQUIRED AFTER THE WOMAN. AND ONE SAID, IS NOT THIS BATHSHEBA, THE DAUGHTER OF ELIAM, THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE?_ One said - literally, he said to himself. IS NOT THIS BATH-...
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 cha...
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’...
BATH-SHEBA, THE DAUGHTER OF ELIAM. — Her name is spelt in Chronicles _Bath-shua,_ and her father’s name is said to be _Ammiel._ Ammiel and Eliam are the same name with its component parts transposed,...
וַ יִּשְׁלַ֣ח דָּוִ֔ד וַ יִּדְרֹ֖שׁ לָֽ † אִשָּׁ֑ה וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר הֲ לֹוא ־זֹאת֙ בַּת־שֶׁ֣בַע...
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...
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 t...
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 followin...
And David sent and enquired after the woman. And [one] said, [Is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the (c) Hittite? (c) Who was not an born an Israelite, but converted to...
Eliam. By a transposition of letters, he is called Ammiel, in 1 Paralipomenon iii. 5. Both words signify "my people is God's." This son of Achitophel (chap. xxiii. 34,) was one of David's valiant men,...
(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 bea...
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...
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...
AND DAVID SENT AND INQUIRED AFTER THE WOMAN,.... Who she was, what her name, and whether married or unmarried; if the latter, very probably his intention was to marry her, and he might, when he first...
And David sent and enquired after the woman. And [one] said, [Is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? Ver. 3. _And David sent and inquired after the woman,_] viz...
_David sent and inquired after the woman_ Thus, instead of suppressing that desire which the sight of his eyes had kindled, he seeks rather to feed it; and first inquires who she was; that if she were...
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...
David's Adultery...
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...
BATHSHEBA: Or, Bathshuah...
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 g...
Instead of suppressing that lust which the sight of his eyes had kindled, he seeks rather to feed it; and first inquires who she was; that, if she were unmarried, he might make her either his wife or...
2 Samuel 11:3 David H1732 sent H7971 (H8799) inquired H1875 (H8799) woman H802 said H559 (H8799) Bathsheba H1339 daughter H1323 Eliam H463 wife H802 Uriah H223 Hittite H2850 sent - Jeremiah 5:8; Hose...
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 l...
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,...
_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: But...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:1 The story of the Ammonite war continues up through 2 Samuel 11:1 and concludes in 2 Samuel 12:26. In between comes the account of David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:2). ⇐...
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,”...
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...
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 force...
1 Chronicles 11:41; 1 Chronicles 3:5; 2 Samuel 23:39; Hosea 7:6; Hosea 7:7; James 1:14; James 1:15; Jeremiah 5:8...
He inquired — Instead of suppressing that desire which the sight of his eyes had kindled, he seeks rather to feed it; and first enquires who she was; that if she were unmarried, he might make her eith...