2 Samuel 11:5
3 So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
4 Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
6 At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
7 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing with the war.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
- KJV
- And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
- WEB
- The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
- ASV
- And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
- DARBY
- And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
- BLB
- And the woman conceived. And she sent and told David and said, “I [am] pregnant.”
- ÅB
- Kvinnen ble fruktsommelig; og hun sendte bud om det til David og lot si: Jeg er fruktsommelig.
- OTB
- Og kvinnen ble med barn; så hun sendte bud til David og sa: "Jeg er gravid."
- B1930
- Kvinnen blev fruktsommelig; og hun sendte bud om det til David og lot si: Jeg er fruktsommelig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
Read in contextProverbs 6:34
For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
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