2 Samuel 11:26-27 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:27

David's fall. "But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord." One guarantee, even to the most unlettered, of the truthfulness of sacred history is the impartiality of its accounts of its greatest heroes, whose sins and follies are faithfully recorded as well as their virtues. Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, are cases in point. David is another instance, whose fearful sins are recorded in this most distressing chapter, ending with the significant words of our text, "But the thing that... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 11:26

Bath-sheba’s mourning, like that of Abigail 1 Samuel 25:39-42, was probably limited to the customary time of seven days. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 11:27

2 Samuel 11:27. When the mourning was past Which commonly continued only the space of seven days, 1 Samuel 31:13; nor could the nature of the thing admit of longer delay, lest the too early birth of the child should discover David’s sin. Bare a son By which it appears that David continued in the state of impenitence for divers months together, and this notwithstanding his frequent attendance upon God’s ordinances which is an eminent instance of the corruption of man’s nature, of the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:1-27

11:1-20:26 CONFLICTS IN DAVID’S FAMILYDavid takes Bathsheba as wife (11:1-12:31)While the Israelite army was out fighting another battle against Ammon, David, back in Jerusalem, committed a series of sins that brought him sorrow and trouble for the rest of his life. To begin with, he was guilty of sexual immorality with Bathsheba, wife of Uriah, one of David’s top soldiers (11:1-5; cf. 23:39).On discovering that Bathsheba was pregnant, David thought of a plan to cover up his sin. He recalled... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 11:26

mourned = made lamentations. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 11:27

sent . Not till nine months after. the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Samuel 11:26

DAVID MARRIED BATHSHEBA; COVER-UP NO. 9"When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she made lamentation for her husband. And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord."All of David's efforts to maneuver Uriah into resuming his relations with Bathsheba bear eloquent testimony to the fact that David really had no intention whatever, at first, of marrying... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 11:26-27

2 Samuel 11:26-27. She mourned for her husband, &c.— This mourning is generally supposed to have been the keeping of a fast for seven days successively; eating nothing each day till the sun was set. It cannot be denied, that there was a manifest indecency in David's taking Bath-sheba to be his wife so soon after her husband's death; and some think her compliance a proof of her indifference and disregard for her husband. Alas! they were anxious to hide the infamy of their commerce; and to... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 11:1-27

David and BathshebaThis narrative is of the greatest value. It shows the faithfulness and the high morality of the historian, who relates, without a single attempt at palliation, this scandalous chapter in the great king’s history. Further, the position of the prophet, even in these early days, as the ’conscience’ of the individual or the nation, is clearly described. What Nathan is to David, Elijah (with equal courage) is to Ahab. In other nations, even in much later times, such an act if... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Samuel 11:26

(26) Mourned for her husband.—How long this mourning lasted we are not told. The usual period was seven days (Genesis 1:10; 1 Samuel 31:13), and although that of a widow may well have been somewhat longer, it was doubtless, under the circumstances, made as short as was consistent with decency. read more