2 Samuel 11:4
David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
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5The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
Cross References
Genesis 39:7After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
Leviticus 15:19“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Deuteronomy 5:18“You shall not commit adultery.
Psalms 50:18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Psalms 51:2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
James 1:14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust 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 →