2 Samuel 11:4

Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

In Context

3So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

5And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

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Cross References

Genesis 39:7and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

Leviticus 15:19When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Deuteronomy 5:18You shall not commit adultery.

Psalms 50:18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

Psalms 51:2Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

James 1:14But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 11:2-6

David's Sin with Bath-sheba. ( b. c. 1037.) 1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. 2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look… Read the whole commentary →

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