2 Samuel 11:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

2 Samuel 11:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

Here is, I. David’s glory, in pursuing the war against the Ammonites, 2 Sam. 11:1. We cannot take that pleasure in viewing this great action which hitherto we have taken in observing David’s achievements, because the beauty of it was stained and sullied by sin; otherwise we might take notice of David’s wisdom and bravery in following his blow. Having routed the army of the Ammonites in the field,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. the woman conceived, and sent and told David--Some immediate measures of concealing their sin were necessary, as well for the king’s honor as for her safety, for death was the punishment of an adulteress (Le 20:10).