2 Samuel 11:3

3 David mandó a preguntar acerca de aquella mujer. Y alguien dijo: ¿No es ésta Betsabé, hija de Eliam, mujer de Urías heteo?

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 Aconteció que en la primavera, en el tiempo cuando los reyes salen a la batalla, David envió a Joab y con él a sus siervos y a todo Israel, y destruyeron a los hijos de Amón y sitiaron a Rabá. Pero David permaneció en Jerusalén.

2 Y al atardecer David se levantó de su lecho y se paseaba por el terrado de la casa del rey, y desde el terrado vio a una mujer que se estaba bañando; y la mujer era de aspecto muy hermoso.

3 David mandó a preguntar acerca de aquella mujer. Y alguien dijo: ¿No es ésta Betsabé, hija de Eliam, mujer de Urías heteo?

4 David envió mensajeros y la tomó; y cuando ella vino a él, él durmió con ella. Después que ella se purificó de su inmundicia, regresó a su casa.

5 Y la mujer concibió; y envió aviso a David, diciendo: Estoy encinta.