Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Samuel 11:5
Consider therefore what to do for thy own honour, and for my safety, whom thou hast brought into a most shameful and dangerous condition.
Consider therefore what to do for thy own honour, and for my safety, whom thou hast brought into a most shameful and dangerous condition.
Verse 2 Samuel 11:5. _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 to conceive....
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
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 *);...
SENT AND TOLD: that David might shield her from the death penalty (Leviticus 20:10)....
_sent and told David_ That he might devise some plan to shield her from the consequences of her sin; for by the Mosaic law she was liable to be put to death (Leviticus 20:10). David accordingly sent f...
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 David...
_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 well fo...
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...
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...
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....
וַ תַּ֖הַר הָֽ אִשָּׁ֑ה וַ תִּשְׁלַח֙ וַ
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 to...
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...
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....
(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 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 sent...
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 child,...
_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 hono...
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...
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. This message was sent with the object of having David find some means of avoiding the consequences of their mutual sin, sin...
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...
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...
2 Samuel 11:5 woman H802 conceived H2029 (H8799) sent H7971 (H8799) told H5046 (H8686) David H1732 said...
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...
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 i...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:1 The story of the Ammonite war continues up through 2 Samuel 11:1 and concludes in...
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 forces...
Deuteronomy 22:22; Proverbs 6:34...