2 Samuel 11:3

3 David fit demander qui était cette femme, et on lui dit: N'est-ce pas Bath-Schéba, fille d'Eliam, femme d'Urie, le Héthien?

2 Samuel 11:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 11:3

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 made the inquiry, design to proceed no further, or to anything that was dishonourable; but it would have been better for him not to have inquired at all, and endeavoured to stifle the motions raised in him at the sight of her:

and [one] said, [is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam;
who in ( 1 Chronicles 3:5 ) ; is called Bathshua, and her father Ammiel, which is the same with Eliam reversed:

the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
who either was of that nation originally, and became a proselyte; or had sojourned there for a while, and took the name or had it given him, for some exploit he had performed against that people, as Scipio Africanus, and others among the Romans; this was said by one that David inquired of, or heard him asking about her, and was sufficient to have stopped him from proceeding any further, when he was informed she was another man's wife: some say ^F8 she was the daughter of Ahithophel's son; see ( 2 Samuel 23:34 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 8. 2.

2 Samuel 11:3 In-Context

1 L'année suivante, au temps où les rois se mettaient en campagne, David envoya Joab, avec ses serviteurs et tout Israël, pour détruire les fils d'Ammon et pour assiéger Rabba. Mais David resta à Jérusalem.

2 Un soir, David se leva de sa couche; et, comme il se promenait sur le toit de la maison royale, il aperçut de là une femme qui se baignait, et qui était très belle de figure.

3 David fit demander qui était cette femme, et on lui dit: N'est-ce pas Bath-Schéba, fille d'Eliam, femme d'Urie, le Héthien?

4 Et David envoya des gens pour la chercher. Elle vint vers lui, et il coucha avec elle. Après s'être purifiée de sa souillure, elle retourna dans sa maison.

5 Cette femme devint enceinte, et elle fit dire à David: Je suis enceinte.