2 Samuel 11:1

Bathsheba, David's Great Sin

1 1Then it happened 2in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and 3besieged * Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 11:1 In-Context

1 Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
2 Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.
3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
4 David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.
5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am pregnant."

Cross References 3

  • 1. 1 Chronicles 20:1
  • 2. 2 Samuel 10:14; 1 Kings 20:22, 26
  • 3. 2 Samuel 12:26-29; Jeremiah 49:2, 3; Amos 1:14

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit "at the return of the year"
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