2 Samuel 11:1-5
Lexham English Bible
David Commits Adultery with Bathsheba
11 It came about in the spring,[a] at the time kings[b] go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel. They ravaged all of the Ammonites[c] and besieged Rabbah, but David was remaining in Jerusalem. 2 It happened late one afternoon[d] that David got up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the king’s house, and he saw a woman bathing on her[e] roof. Now the woman was very beautiful.[f] 3 David sent and inquired about the woman, and someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house. 5 The woman became pregnant, and she sent and told David, and she said, “I am pregnant.”
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- 2 Samuel 11:1 Literally “And it happened at the turn of the year”
- 2 Samuel 11:1 According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has “angels” or “messengers”
- 2 Samuel 11:1 Literally “sons/children of Ammon”
- 2 Samuel 11:2 Literally “at the time of the evening”
- 2 Samuel 11:2 Hebrew “the”
- 2 Samuel 11:2 Literally “very good of appearance”
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