When the mourning was past Which commonly continued only the space of seven days, 1 Samuel 31:13; nor could the nature of the thing admit of longer delay, lest the too early birth of the child should discover David's sin. Bare a son By which it appears that David continued in the state of impenitence for divers months together, and this notwithstanding his frequent attendance upon God's ordinances which is an eminent instance of the corruption of man's nature, of the deceitfulness of sin, and of the tremendous judgment of God in punishing one sin by delivering a man up to another.

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