2 Samuel 11:3

3 Tendo Davi enviado a indagar a respeito daquela mulher, disseram-lhe: Porventura não é Bate-Seba, filha de Eliã, mulher de Urias, o heteu?

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 Tendo decorrido um ano, no tempo em que os reis saem � guerra, Davi enviou Joabe, e com ele os seus servos e todo o Israel; e eles destruíram os amonitas, e sitiaram a Rabá. Porém Davi ficou em Jerusalem.

2 Ora, aconteceu que, numa tarde, Davi se levantou do seu leito e se pôs a passear no terraço da casa real; e do terraço viu uma mulher que se estava lavando; e era esta mulher mui formosa � vista.

3 Tendo Davi enviado a indagar a respeito daquela mulher, disseram-lhe: Porventura não é Bate-Seba, filha de Eliã, mulher de Urias, o heteu?

4 Então Davi mandou mensageiros para trazê-la; e ela veio a ele, e ele se deitou com ela (pois já estava purificada da sua imundícia); depois ela voltou para sua casa.

5 A mulher concebeu; e mandou dizer a Davi: Estou grávida.