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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记下 11:4

於是大衛差派使者去把她接來。她來到大衛那裡,大衛就與她同房。那時她的月經剛得潔淨。事後,她就回家去了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Bastard;   Bath-Sheba (Bathsheba);   Covetousness;   David;   Defilement;   Instability;   Lasciviousness;   Purification;   Temptation;   Uriah;   Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - David;   Lust of the Eye;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Chastity;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Uriah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bathsheba;   Concubine;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bath-Sheba;   David;   Samuel, Books of;   Uriah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bath (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ablutions;   Bathsheba;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Bathsheba;   Marriage;   Samuel, Books of;   Uriah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Uriah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bathsheba;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bath, Bathing;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Samuel, Books of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bathsheba;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Carites;   Nomism;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
大 卫 差 人 去 , 将 妇 人 接 来 ; 那 时 他 的 月 经 才 得 洁 净 。 他 来 了 , 大 卫 与 他 同 房 , 他 就 回 家 去 了 。

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

sent messengers: Genesis 39:7, Job 31:9-11, Psalms 50:18

he lay: Psalms 51:1, *title James 1:14, James 1:15

she was: etc. or, and when she had purified herself, etc. she returned. Proverbs 30:20

purified: Leviticus 12:2-5, Leviticus 15:19-28, Leviticus 15:29-33, Leviticus 18:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:14 - General Leviticus 18:20 - General 2 Samuel 12:4 - took the 2 Samuel 12:9 - despised 2 Samuel 12:12 - secretly 1 Kings 15:5 - save only 2 Chronicles 16:10 - the same time Job 24:15 - eye Proverbs 6:29 - he that

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.
Genesis 11:8
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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 11:11
After that, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:13
After that, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Deuteronomy 1:28
Where can we go now? The spies we sent have made us afraid, because they said, ‘The people there are stronger and taller than we are. The cities are big, with walls up to the sky. And we saw the Anakites there!'"
Deuteronomy 4:27
The Lord will scatter you among the other nations. Only a few of you will be left alive, and those few will be in other nations where the Lord will send you.
Deuteronomy 9:1
Listen, Israel. You will soon cross the Jordan River to go in and force out nations that are bigger and stronger than you. They have large cities with walls up to the sky.
2 Samuel 8:13
David was famous after he returned from defeating eighteen thousand Arameans in the Valley of Salt.
Psalms 92:9
Lord , surely your enemies, surely your enemies will be destroyed, and all who do evil will be scattered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David sent messengers,.... To invite her to his palace:

and took her; not by force, but through persuasion:

and she came in unto him; into the apartment where he was:

and he lay with her; she consenting to it, being prevailed upon, and drawn into it through the greatness and goodness of the man, which might make the sin appear the lesser to her. This is recorded to show what the best of men are, when left to themselves; how strong and prevalent corrupt nature is in regenerate persons, when grace is not in exercise; what need the saints stand in of fresh supplies of grace, to keep them from falling; what caution is necessary to everyone that stands, lest he fall; and that it becomes us to abstain from all appearance of sin, and whatever leads unto it, and to watch and pray that we enter not into temptation; and such a record as this is an argument for the integrity of the Scriptures, that they conceal not the faults of the greatest favourites mentioned in them, as well as it serves to prevent despair in truly penitent backsliders:

for she was purified from her uncleanness; this clause is added in a parenthesis, partly to show the reason of her washing herself, which was not for health and pleasure, and to cool herself in a hot day, but to purify herself from her menstruous pollution, according to the law in Leviticus 15:19; the term of her separation being expired; and partly to give a reason why she the more easily consented, and he was the more eager to enjoy her; and in this he sinned, not that he did not lie with an unclean person; but, then, as some observe, he did that which was much worse, he committed adultery; also this may be added to observe, that she was the more apt for conception, as Ben Gersom notes, and to account for the quickness of it, with which the philosopher i agrees:

and she returned unto her house; whether that evening, or next morning, or how long she stayed, is not said.

i Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 7. c. 2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 11:4. And she came in unto him — We hear nothing of her reluctance, and there is no evidence that she was taken by force.


 
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