2 Samuel 12:9

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 12:1-14

2 Samuel 12:1-14And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. Nathan reproving DavidI. David’s sin. David, it appears, to avenge the outrage which bad been perpetrated on his ambassadors by Hanun, the king of the Ammonites, invaded that king’s dominions, and, in two pitched battles, defeated both him and his allies with great slaughter. In the following year, as soon as the season permitted, David renewed the war, and followed up his successes still further by sending Joab, and all Israel with him, to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Samuel 12:9

2 Samuel 12:9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord.The sinner’s treatment of God’s lawSome men treat the law and testimony of the Lord as if it were like plaster of Paris, to be poured over their features to take the cast of their own boasted loveliness. Religion is to them a matter of opinion and not of fact; they talk about their “views,” and their ideas, as if Christians were no longer believers but inventors, and no more disciples but masters. This cometh of evil, and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:9

2Sa 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Ver. 9. Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment? ] Yea, not one, but many: especially the sixth and seventh commandment: although the truth is, the whole law is but one copulative, as the schools speak, Exo 16:18 Eze 18:10-13 and he that breaketh... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Samuel 12:9

despised: 2 Samuel 12:10, 2 Samuel 11:4, 2 Samuel 11:14-Esther :, Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, Exodus 20:13, Exodus 20:14, Numbers 15:30, Numbers 15:31, 1 Samuel 15:19, 1 Samuel 15:23, Isaiah 5:24, Amos 2:4, Hebrews 10:28, Hebrews 10:29 to do evil: 2 Chronicles 33:6, Psalms 51:4, Psalms 90:8, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:2, Jeremiah 18:10 thou hast: 2 Samuel 11:15-Daniel : Reciprocal: Genesis 3:13 - What Genesis 37:27 - let not Genesis 38:23 - lest we Exodus 32:30 - Ye have Exodus 32:35 - General... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Samuel 12:9

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.To be thy wife — To marry her whom he had defiled, and whose husband he had slain, was an affront upon the ordinance of marriage, making that not only to palliate, but in a manner to consecrate such villainies. In all this he despised the word of the Lord; (so it... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 12:1-14

NATHAN’S PARABLE AGAINST DAVID, 2 Samuel 12:1-14. “The year had passed; the dead Uriah was forgotten; the child of guilt was born in the royal house, and loved with all the passionate tenderness of David’s paternal heart. Suddenly the prophet Nathan appears before him. He comes as if to claim redress for a wrong in humble life. It was the true mission of the prophets, as champions of the oppressed, in the courts of kings. It was the true prophetic spirit that spoke through Nathan’s mouth. The... read more