撒母耳记下 11:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

有一天近黃昏的時候，大衛從床上起來，在王宮的平頂上散步。他從平頂上看見一個婦人在洗澡；這婦人容貌美麗。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
一 日 ， 太 阳 平 西 ， 大 卫 从 床 上 起 来 ， 在 王 宫 的 平 顶 上 游 行 ， 看 见 一 个 妇 人 沐 浴 ， 容 貌 甚 美 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ In the spring, when the kings normally went out to war, David sent out Joab, his servants, and all the Israelites. They destroyed the Ammonites and attacked the city of Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem. ² One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. While he was on the roof, he saw a woman bathing. She was very beautiful. ³ So David sent his servants to find out who she was. A servant answered, "That woman is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam. She is the wife of Uriah the Hittite." ⁴ So David sent messengers to bring Bathsheba to him. When she came to him, he had sexual relations with her. (Now Bathsheba had purified herself from her monthly period.) Then she went back to her house. ⁵ But Bathsheba became pregnant and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

arose from: 2 Samuel 4:5, 2 Samuel 4:7, Proverbs 19:15, Proverbs 24:33, Proverbs 24:34, Matthew 26:40, Matthew 26:41, 1 Thessalonians 5:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:7, 1 Peter 4:7

the roof of: Deuteronomy 22:8, Jeremiah 19:13, Matthew 10:27, Acts 10:9

he saw: Genesis 3:6, Genesis 6:2, Genesis 34:2, Job 31:1, Psalms 119:37, Matthew 5:28, 1 John 2:16

very beautiful: Genesis 39:6, Proverbs 6:25, Proverbs 31:30

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:11 - a fair Genesis 38:2 - saw Exodus 20:17 - wife Joshua 2:6 - to the roof Joshua 7:21 - I saw Judges 14:1 - Timnath Judges 16:27 - the roof 1 Samuel 9:25 - the top 2 Samuel 13:1 - a fair sister 2 Samuel 16:22 - the top Nehemiah 8:16 - the roof Job 20:14 - his meat Psalms 51:1 - after Psalms 101:3 - set Psalms 119:67 - Before Psalms 139:3 - my path Proverbs 7:8 - General Proverbs 23:31 - General Ecclesiastes 11:9 - in the sight Jeremiah 5:8 - every one Ezekiel 23:16 - as soon as she saw them with her eyes Luke 5:19 - housetop Romans 7:7 - Thou shalt Galatians 6:1 - overtaken James 1:14 - when 2 Peter 2:14 - eyes

Cross-References

Genesis 10:10
At first Nimrod's kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Babylonia.

Genesis 11:9
The place is called Babel since that is where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord caused them to spread out from there over the whole world.

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose to move east and live in the Jordan Valley. In this way Abram and Lot separated.

Genesis 14:1
Now Amraphel was king of Babylonia, Arioch was king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer was king of Elam, and Tidal was king of Goiim.

Isaiah 11:11
At that time the Lord will again reach out and take his people who are left alive in Assyria, North Egypt, South Egypt, Cush, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and all the islands of the sea.

Daniel 1:2
The Lord allowed Nebuchadnezzar to capture Jehoiakim king of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar also took some of the things from the Temple of God, which he carried to Babylonia and put in the temple of his gods.

Zechariah 5:11
"They are going to Babylonia to build a temple for it," he answered. "When the temple is ready, they will set the basket there in its place."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass in an eveningtide,.... Some time in the afternoon, when the sun began to decline; not in the dusk of the evening, for then the object he saw could not have been seen so distinctly by him:

that David arose from off his bed; having taken a nap in the heat of the day after dinner; indulging himself more than he used to do to sloth and luxury, which prepared him, and led him on the more eagerly to the lust of uncleanness:

and walked upon the roof of the king's house; to refresh himself after his sleep, it being the cool of the day, and the roof of the house being flat and fit to walk upon, as the houses of Judea were; see

Deuteronomy 22:8;

and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; in a bath in her garden, or in an apartment in her house, the window being open:

and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon; of a fine shape and good complexion, and comely countenance; all which were incentives to lust, at which his eye was attracted to, and his heart was ensnared with her.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An eveningtide - The evening began at three o’clock in the afternoon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 11:2. In an evening-tide - David arose — He had been reposing on the roof of his house, to enjoy the breeze, as the noonday was too hot for the performance of business. This is still a constant custom on the flat-roofed houses in the East.

He saw a woman washing herself — How could any woman of delicacy expose herself where she could be so fully and openly viewed? Did she not know that she was at least in view of the king's terrace? Was there no design in all this? Et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri. In a Bengal town pools of water are to be seen everywhere, and women may be seen morning and evening bathing in them, and carrying water home. Thus David might have seen Bath-sheba, and no blame attach to her.

Ver. 2 Samuel 11:4 shows us that this washing was at the termination of a particular period.