Mourned for her husband. — How long this mourning lasted we are not told. The usual period was seven days (Genesis 1:10; 1 Samuel 31:13), and although that of a widow may well have been somewhat longer, it was doubtless, under the circumstances, made as short as was consistent with decency.
Verse 2 Samuel 11:26. _SHE MOURNED FOR HER HUSBAND._] The whole of her conduct indicates that she observed the _form_ without feeling the _power_ of _sorrow_. She lost a _captain_ and got a _king_ for...
Bath-sheba’s mourning, like that of Abigail 1 Samuel 25:39, was probably limited to the customary time of seven days....
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 *);...
MOURNED. made lamentations....
Bath-sheba becomes David's wife 26. _she mourned for her husband_ Seven days was the usual period of mourning. See Gen 50:10; 1 Samuel 31:13; Jdt 16:24; Sir 22:12. In exceptional cases thirty days wer...
_2 SAMUEL 11:26_. S_HE MOURNED FOR HER HUSBAND,_ &C.— This mourning is generally supposed to have been the keeping of a fast for seven days successively; eating nothing each day till the sun was set....
_Bathsheba Becomes David's Wife._ 2 Samuel 11:22-27 22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for. 23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed a...
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...
וַ תִּשְׁמַע֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת אֽוּרִיָּ֔ה כִּי ־מֵ֖ת...
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...
ADDING BLOOD-GUILTINESS TO ADULTERY 2 Samuel 11:14 Joab must have smiled grimly to himself when he received his master's letter. “This king of ours can sing psalms with the best, but I have to do his...
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...
_For him. We may apply to her tears those words of Lucan: -----Lachrymas non sponte cadentes_ Effudit, gemitusque expressit pectore læto. "None affected more sorrow for the death of Germanicus, than...
(26) And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. What are we to think of this woman! The Holy Ghost hath not remarked anywhere on her conduct. Was sh...
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 WHEN THE WIFE OF URIAH HEARD THAT URIAH HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD,.... The news of which were soon sent her by David, though it is very probable she knew nothing of the plot to take away his life; and,...
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. Ver. 26. _She mourned for her husband._] _Fictis lachrymis; _ there is little doubt to be made but that...
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 when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah, her husband, was dead, she mourned for her husband, probably the usual seven days, Genesis 50:10; 1 Samuel 31:13....
David's Murder of Uriah...
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...
14-27 Adulteries often occasion murders, and one wickedness is sought to be covered by another. The beginnings of sin are much to be dreaded; for who knows where they will end? Can a real believer ev...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Samuel 11:26 wife H802 Uriah H223 heard H8085 (H8799) Uriah H223 husband H376 dead H4191 (H8804) mourned...
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,...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:26 The MOURNING period was probably seven days (Genesis 50:10;...
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...
2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Samuel 3:31; Genesis 27:41...