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 unmarried he might make her either his wife or his concubine. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba? This seems to have been an answer given by some one to David's inquiry. Uriah is called a Hittite, because he was such by nation, but a proselyte to the Jewish religion; and for his valour made one of the king's guards among the Cherethites and the Pelethites; which was the reason, perhaps, that he had a house so near the king's.

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