2 Samuel 12:13-25

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 12:23

FOUR DOCTRINES IN FIVE WORDS‘I shall go to him.’ 2 Samuel 12:23 Few, but big with meaning, are these words of the inspired prophet. No less than four scriptural and heart-cheering doctrines are contained in and taught by them. I. Infant salvation.—‘I shall go to him.’ Whoever may doubt or call in question infant salvation, David believed it, and comforted himself by the faith of it. ‘I shall go to him.’ Whither? To the grave to him? No, no! What communion is there there? Where, then? to... read more

Peter Pett

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

Through Nathan The Prophet YHWH Calls David To Account For His Sins (1 Samuel 12:1-15 a). David should have been aware that YHWH knew his secret sins. He said so often enough in his Psalms. But it is a sign of how hardened even the most spiritual person can become to the truth about himself that David appears to have felt no qualms about the appalling behaviour in which he had been involved. After all, affairs were going well at Rabbah, he now had Bathsheba as his wife, he was looking forward... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 12:15-23

The Son Born Of Adultery Dies As YHWH Had Said (12:15b-23). The first consequence of David’s sin was to be that the son born of his adultery would die. While it would be clear to all at the time that this was YHWH’s judgment on David, we do not need to see in this an indication that YHWH personally struck the child down in a direct act of judgment which would not otherwise have taken place. In fact we may probably presume that this death would actually have taken place in the natural course of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 12:24-25

YHWH Demonstrates By Means Of The Birth Of Another Son Through Bathsheba That David Is Still Greatly Loved (2 Samuel 12:24-25 ). David might easily have begun to despair of the future as he remembered how sinful he had been and the dreadful things that he had done. Perhaps this would be the end of his hopes and of his success? But YHWH now graciously gave him two signs that his future in YHWH was secure, the first lay in the birth of another son, who was stated to be ‘the beloved of YHWH’,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 12:1-31

2 Samuel 12. David’ s Repentance. Capture of Rabbah (J).— The section concerning Nathan ( 2 Samuel 12:1-Ezra : a) is sometimes regarded as a later addition by some one who was anxious to point out and emphasize the moral; but this view is not generally held. Only 2 Samuel 12:10-2 Kings : need be regarded as editorial. The chapter is important because it shows that the primitive ideas as to the morality of Yahweh were very real, though they might be defective in some directions. 2 Samuel... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:13

I have sinned against the Lord; I now freely confess that sin which I have hitherto so wickedly smothered; and I have deserved all these and far heavier judgments for it; and I am more troubled for my sin against my sovereign Lord and gracious God, than for the shame and punishment that follow it. How serious and pathetical this confession was, we may see, Psalms 51:0. The Lord also hath put away thy sin, i.e. so far as concerns thy own life and eternal salvation; both which were forfeited by... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:14

To blaspheme, i. e. to reproach both God and his people, and the true religion. For though these were not concerned in David’s sin, the blame and shame of which should have been appropriated to him; yet heathens and wicked men would, according to their own evil minds and malicious hearts, fasten the reproach of this upon God and religion; as if God were unholy, because the man after God’s own heart was so; and partial, in conniving at so great a crime, when Saul was cast off for a far less sin;... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:15

The Lord struck the child with some sudden and dangerous distemper. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:16

David besought God for the child; supposing the threatening might be conditional, and so the execution of it prevented by prayer. Went in, to wit, into his closet, as Matthew 6:6, to pray solitarily and earnestly, as he had done with others. Or this word may only note his progress and continuance in the actions here expressed. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his house; the chief officers of his kingdom and household who were there present. This excessive mourning did not proceed simply from the fear of the loss of the child; but from a deep sense of his sin, and from the Divine displeasure manifested herein; and particularly from a just apprehension of the injury which he had done to the child by his sin, which justice obliged him to do his utmost to repair by prayer or other means. read more

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