2 Samuel 11:1-6

Bathsheba, David's Great Sin

1 ¹Then it happened ²in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and ³besieged * Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

2 Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on ⁴the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is this not ⁵Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of ⁶Uriah the Hittite?"

4 David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, ⁷he lay with her; ⁸and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "⁹I am pregnant."

6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

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2 Samuel 11:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 11

This chapter begins with the destruction of the Ammonites, and the siege of Rabbah their chief city, 2Sa 11:1; and enlarges on the sins of David in committing adultery with Bathsheba, 2Sa 11:2-5; in contriving to conceal his sin by sending for her husband home from the army, 2Sa 11:6-13; in laying a scheme for the death of him by the hand of the Ammonites, 2Sa 11:14-25; and in marrying Bathsheba when he was dead, 2Sa 11:26,27.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

1. 1 Chronicles 20:1
2. 2 Samuel 10:14; 1 Kings 20:22, 26
3. 2 Samuel 12:26-29; Jeremiah 49:2, 3; Amos 1:14
4. Deuteronomy 22:8; 1 Samuel 9:25; Matthew 24:17; Acts 10:9
5. 1 Chronicles 3:5
6. 2 Samuel 23:39
7. Ps 51: title; James 1:14, 15
8. Leviticus 12:2-5; Leviticus 15:18-28; Leviticus 18:19
9. Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22

Footnotes 1

[a]. Lit "at the return of the year"