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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:1-14

It seems to have been a great while after David had been guilty of adultery with Bath-sheba before he was brought to repentance for it. For, when Nathan was sent to him, the child was born (2 Sam. 12:14), so that it was about nine months that David lay under the guilt of that sin, and, for aught that appears, unrepented of. What shall we think of David's state all this while? Can we imagine that his heart never smote him for it, or that he never lamented it in secret before God? I would... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:7

And Nathan said to David, thou art the man ,.... The rich man, or who is designed by him in the parable, and answers to him F20 "----- mutato nomine, de te Fabula narratur -----". Horat. Sermon. l. 1. Satyr. 1. ver. 69,70. : thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel ; that is, ordered Samuel to anoint him, who did, 1 Samuel 16:1 ; to which this chiefly refers; and after that he was anointed first by the tribe of Judah, and then by all the tribes of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:8

And I gave thee thy master's house ,.... Not his palace at Gibeah, but rather his family, his wives, servants, wealth, and riches, all being confiscated through the rebellion of Ishbosheth; or rather his kingdom he succeeded him in: and thy master's wives into thy bosom ; though we read of no more than one that belonged to Saul, if he is meant by his master, excepting Rizpah his concubine, nor ever of David taking them into his bosom and bed; wherefore this can be understood only of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:9

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight ?.... The commandment referred to is the law of God, particularly the sixth and seventh precepts of it, Exodus 20:13 ; which David had shown no regard unto, and by his breaking them had slighted and despised them: thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword ; and so had despised and broken the sixth command, Exodus 20:13 ; for though he had not taken away his life with his own hand, he had plotted... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:10

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house ,.... During his life, and as appeared in the slaughter of his sons Ammon and Absalom before his death, and of Adonijah quickly after, and in his posterity through their wars with the children of Israel, and other nations: because thou hast despised me ; his commandments, and that in effect was despising him the lawgiver: and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife ; which being repeated shows that it was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:11

Thus saith the Lord ,.... For what he said was not of himself, but under a spirit of prophecy: behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house : that is, evil persons, who should be guilty of evil things, and that as a chastisement of him for the sins he had committed, and those out of his own family, as Amnon and Absalom: and I will take thy wives before thine eyes ; which is so expressed, because it was done in his lifetime, and he knowing it, but not able to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:12

For thou didst it secretly ,.... Committed adultery with Bathsheba privately, and endeavoured to conceal it, by getting her husband killed in battle, and then marrying her as soon as he could to hide the shame of it: but one will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun ; as the above fact was; that is, he would suffer it to he done, and so order it in his providence, that everything should concur to the doing of it; as David's leaving his wives behind him, Ahithophel's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:13

And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord ,.... Which confession, though short, was a full one, arising from a thorough conviction of the evil of the sin he had been guilty of, accompanied with real brokenness of heart, sincere humiliation, and a sorrow after a godly sort, as the fifty first psalm, that penitential psalm composed upon this occasion shows, Psalm 51:1 , and Nathan said unto David ; being fully satisfied with the sincerity and genuineness of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:14

Howbeit, because by this deed ,.... This complicated wickedness, adultery with Bathsheba, and the murder of her husband, and occasioning the death of others: thou hast given great reason to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme ; to insult over Israel, and the God of Israel, and to magnify their own idols on account of the advantage they got when Uriah and other Israelites were slain; and to speak ill of God as a respecter of persons, who had cast off Saul and his family from the kingdom,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 12:7

Thou art the man - What a terrible word! And by it David appears to have been transfixed, and brought into the dust before the messenger of God. Thou Art this son of death, and thou shalt restore this lamb Fourfold. It is indulging fancy too much to say David was called, in the course of a just Providence to pay this fourfold debt? to lose four sons by untimely deaths, viz., this son of Bath-sheba, on whom David had set his heart, was slain by the Lord; Amnon, murdered by his brother... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:1-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 12:7

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