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2 Samuel 11:3-5
International Standard Version
2 Samuel 11:3-5
International Standard Version
3 David sent word[a] to inquire about her,[b] and someone told him, “This is Eliam’s daughter Bathsheba,[c] the wife of Uriah the Hittite, isn’t it?” 4 So David sent some messengers, took her from her home,[d] and she went to him, and he had sex with her. (She had been consecrating herself following her menstrual separation.)[e] Then she returned to her home.
5 The woman conceived, and she sent this message[f] to David: “I’m pregnant.”
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- 2 Samuel 11:3 The Heb. lacks word
- 2 Samuel 11:3 Lit. the woman
- 2 Samuel 11:3 Eliam’s father was Ahithophel, Bathsheba’s grandfather; cf. 2Sam 15:12; 23:34
- 2 Samuel 11:4 The Heb. lacks from her home
- 2 Samuel 11:4 I.e. a week-long period of ritual exemption from participation in Israel’s social and worship community; cf. Lev 15:19, 28; 18:19
- 2 Samuel 11:5 The Heb. lacks this message
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