2 Samuele 11:3

3 Davide mandò ad informarsi chi fosse la donna; e gli fu detto: "E’ Bath-Sheba, figliuola di Eliam, moglie di Uria, lo Hitteo".

2 Samuele 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 Samuele 11:3 In-Context

1 Or avvenne che l’anno seguente, nel tempo in cui i re sogliono andare alla guerra, Davide mandò Joab con la sua gente e con tutto Israele a devastare il paese dei figliuoli di Ammon e ad assediare Rabba; ma Davide rimase a Gerusalemme.

2 Una sera Davide, alzatosi dal suo letto, si mise a passeggiare sulla terrazza del palazzo reale; e dalla terrazza vide una donna che si bagnava; e la donna era bellissima.

3 Davide mandò ad informarsi chi fosse la donna; e gli fu detto: "E’ Bath-Sheba, figliuola di Eliam, moglie di Uria, lo Hitteo".

4 E Davide inviò gente a prenderla; ed ella venne da lui, ed egli si giacque con lei, che si era purificata della sua contaminazione; poi ella se ne tornò a casa sua.

5 La donna rimase incinta, e lo fece sapere a Davide, dicendo: "Sono incinta".