2 Samuel 11:3

David sent someone to find out about the woman. He was told, “It's Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, and wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

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In The King James Version

And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

In Context

2Late one afternoon, David got up from taking a nap and was walking on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

4David sent messengers to fetch her. When she came to him, he had sex with her. (Now she had just purified herself from having her period.) Afterwards she went back home.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 23:39and Uriah the Hittite; a total of thirty-seven.

1 Chronicles 11:41Uriah the Hittite; Zabad son of Ahlai;

Jeremiah 5:8They're like virile stallions wanting sex, each of them neighing with lust after his neighbor's wife.

James 1:14Temptations come from our own evil desires that lead us astray and entrap us.

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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