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She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/2_samuel/11.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Then David sent messengers to get her; and when she came to the palace, he slept with her. She had just completed the purification rites after having her menstrual period. Then she returned home.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/2_samuel/11.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/2_samuel/11.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/2_samuel/11.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/2_samuel/11.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/2_samuel/11.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then David sent messengers and had her brought, and when she came to him, he slept with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/2_samuel/11.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/2_samuel/11.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/2_samuel/11.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/2_samuel/11.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he lay with her. And when she was purified from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/2_samuel/11.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness. Afterward, she returned home.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/2_samuel/11.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness. Afterward, she returned home. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_samuel/11.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned unto her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_samuel/11.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; (for she was purified from her uncleanness;) and she returned unto her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/2_samuel/11.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />So David sent messengers and took her. She came to him, and he went to bed with her. (She had just cleansed herself after her monthly period.) Then she went home.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/2_samuel/11.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />David sent messengers to get her; they brought her to him and he made love to her. (She had just finished her monthly ritual of purification.) Then she went back home. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/2_samuel/11.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />So David sent some messengers, took her from her home, and she went to him, and he had sex with her. (She had been consecrating herself following her menstrual separation.) Then she returned to her home.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/2_samuel/11.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he had sexual relations with her. (Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/2_samuel/11.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />So David sent messengers to get her, and she came in to him, and he lay with her. (For she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_samuel/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned to her house.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/2_samuel/11.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_samuel/11.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/2_samuel/11.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And David sends messengers, and takes her, and she comes to him, and he lies with her—and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness—and she turns back to her house;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_samuel/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And David sendeth messengers, and taketh her, and she cometh unto him, and he lieth with her -- and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness -- and she turneth back unto her house;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/2_samuel/11.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And David will send messengers and take her: and she will come in to him, and he will lie with her; (and she being consecrated from her uncleanness:) and she will turn back to her house.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_samuel/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/2_samuel/11.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And so, David sent messengers, and he took her. And when she had entered to him, he slept with her. And presently, she was purified from her uncleanness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_samuel/11.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Then David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he took her to bed, at a time when she was just purified after her period; and she returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_samuel/11.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/2_samuel/11.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />So David sent a messenger and took her; and she came in to him and he lay with her; and that very day she had cleansed herself after her menstruation; and she returned and went to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/2_samuel/11.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And David sent a Messenger and he took her, and she came into him and he lay with her when she had washed from her menstrual uncleanness, and she returned again and she went to her house<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/2_samuel/11.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/2_samuel/11.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/11-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_0ajZHUzMKw?start=2583" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/2_samuel/11.htm">David and Bathsheba</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>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.” <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: dā·wiḏ (N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">Then David</a> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: way·yiš·laḥ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">sent</a> <a href="/hebrew/4397.htm" title="4397: mal·’ā·ḵîm (N-mp) -- A messenger. From an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. An angel.">messengers</a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: way·yiq·qā·ḥe·hā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms:: 3fs) -- To take. A primitive root; to take.">to get her,</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: wat·tā·ḇō·w (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">and when she came</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ê·lāw (Prep:: 3ms) -- To, into, towards. ">to him,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7901.htm" title="7901: way·yiš·kaḇ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To lie down. A primitive root; to lie down.">he slept</a> <a href="/hebrew/5973.htm" title="5973: ‘im·māh (Prep:: 3fs) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">with her.</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: wə·hî (Conj-w:: Pro-3fs) -- He, she, it. ">(Now she</a> <a href="/hebrew/6942.htm" title="6942: miṯ·qad·de·šeṯ (V-Hitpael-Prtcpl-fs) -- To be set apart or consecrated. A primitive root; to be clean.">had just purified herself</a> <a href="/hebrew/2932.htm" title="2932: miṭ·ṭum·’ā·ṯāh (Prep-m:: N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Religious impurity. From tame'; religious impurity.">from her uncleanness.)</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: wat·tā·šāḇ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">Then she returned</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bê·ṯāh (N-msc:: 3fs) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">home.</a> </span><span class="reftext">5</span>And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/39-7.htm">Genesis 39:7-12</a></span><br />and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” / But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. / No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/18-20.htm">Leviticus 18:20</a></span><br />You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/20-14.htm">Exodus 20:14</a></span><br />You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-27.htm">Matthew 5:27-28</a></span><br />You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ / But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/6-32.htm">Proverbs 6:32-33</a></span><br />He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself. / Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14-15</a></span><br />But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. / Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-18.htm">1 Corinthians 6:18</a></span><br />Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/51-1.htm">Psalm 51:1-4</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. / Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. / For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:3-5</a></span><br />For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/13-4.htm">Hebrews 13:4</a></span><br />Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-22.htm">Deuteronomy 22:22</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/13-13.htm">Romans 13:13-14</a></span><br />Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. / Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/7-6.htm">Proverbs 7:6-27</a></span><br />For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. / I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment, / crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a></span><br />The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/31-1.htm">Job 31:1</a></span><br />“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned to her house.</p><p class="hdg">sent messengers</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/39-7.htm">Genesis 39:7</a></b></br> And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/31-9.htm">Job 31:9-11</a></b></br> If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or <i>if</i> I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/50-18.htm">Psalm 50:18</a></b></br> When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.</p><p class="hdg">he lay</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/51-1.htm">Psalm 51:1</a></b></br> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14,15</a></b></br> But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed… </p><p class="hdg">she was, etc.</p><p class="hdg">purified</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Leviticus 12:2-5</a></b></br> Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/15-19.htm">Leviticus 15:19-28</a></b></br> And if a woman have an issue, <i>and</i> her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/18-19.htm">Leviticus 18:19</a></b></br> Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_samuel/11-2.htm">Bed</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-26.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-3.htm">David</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-2.htm">Herself</a> <a href="/2_samuel/7-10.htm">Home</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-2.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_samuel/4-7.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/2_samuel/10-5.htm">Messengers</a> <a href="/numbers/31-23.htm">Purified</a> <a href="/numbers/8-7.htm">Purifying</a> <a href="/2_samuel/4-6.htm">Slept</a> <a href="/2_samuel/10-14.htm">Turneth</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Uncleanness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_samuel/11-13.htm">Bed</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-21.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-5.htm">David</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-26.htm">Herself</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-10.htm">Home</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-8.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_samuel/12-16.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/2_samuel/12-27.htm">Messengers</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-21.htm">Purified</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/23-28.htm">Purifying</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-9.htm">Slept</a> <a href="/2_samuel/14-24.htm">Turneth</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/29-5.htm">Uncleanness</a><div class="vheading2">2 Samuel 11</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-1.htm">While Joab besieges Rabbah, David commits adultery with Bathsheba</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-6.htm">Uriah, sent for by David to cover the adultery, would not go home.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-14.htm">He carries to Joab the letter of his death</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-18.htm">Joab sends the news thereof to David</a></span><br><span class="reftext">26. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_samuel/11-26.htm">David takes Bathsheba as his wife</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_samuel/11.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_samuel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/2_samuel/11.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Then David sent messengers to get her</b><br>This phrase highlights the authority and power of King David, who could command others to act on his behalf. The use of messengers indicates a formal and deliberate action, reflecting the king's ability to summon individuals at will. This action is set against the backdrop of David's kingship, where he was expected to uphold justice and righteousness. The sending of messengers also underscores the lack of personal interaction and the impersonal nature of the act, which contrasts with the personal and intimate nature of the sin that follows. This moment foreshadows the misuse of power that leads to further transgressions.<p><b>and when she came to him</b><br>Bathsheba's compliance in coming to David can be seen as a reflection of the societal norms and expectations of the time, where a king's request was not easily refused. The cultural context of ancient Israel placed women in a position where they had limited agency, especially in the face of royal authority. This phrase also sets the stage for the unfolding of events that lead to significant consequences for both David and Bathsheba, as well as the nation of Israel.<p><b>he slept with her</b><br>This phrase marks the pivotal moment of sin, where David's actions violate the commandments against adultery. The act of sleeping with Bathsheba is not just a personal moral failure but a breach of covenantal law, which had severe implications for David's relationship with God and his role as king. This sin sets off a chain of events that lead to personal and national turmoil, illustrating the biblical principle that sin has far-reaching consequences. The narrative here connects to other scriptures that warn against the dangers of lust and the importance of self-control.<p><b>(Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.)</b><br>This parenthetical note provides important context regarding Bathsheba's ritual purity, indicating that she had recently completed her menstrual cycle and undergone the required purification rites as outlined in Levitical law. This detail serves to clarify that Bathsheba was not pregnant prior to her encounter with David, emphasizing the certainty of David's paternity in the subsequent pregnancy. The mention of purification also highlights the contrast between ritual cleanliness and the moral impurity of the act that follows.<p><b>Then she returned home</b><br>Bathsheba's return home signifies the end of the immediate encounter but also the beginning of a series of events that will have lasting repercussions. Her return to her own house underscores the temporary and transactional nature of the encounter, lacking the covenantal commitment that marriage entails. This phrase also foreshadows the isolation and vulnerability Bathsheba will experience as the narrative progresses, as well as the eventual exposure of the sin and its consequences. The return home is a moment of transition that sets the stage for the unfolding drama of repentance, judgment, and redemption.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/d/david.htm">David</a></b><br>The King of Israel, a man after God's own heart, who falls into sin by committing adultery with Bathsheba.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/b/bathsheba.htm">Bathsheba</a></b><br>The wife of Uriah, who is brought to David and becomes pregnant by him.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/m/messengers.htm">Messengers</a></b><br>Individuals sent by David to bring Bathsheba to him, playing a role in the unfolding of this event.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The city where these events take place, serving as the backdrop for David's moral failure.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/p/purification.htm">Purification</a></b><br>Bathsheba had just completed a ritual purification, indicating the timing of the event and her state of ceremonial cleanliness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>David's actions lead to a series of tragic events, reminding us that sin often has far-reaching consequences.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_accountability.htm">The Importance of Accountability</a></b><br>David's isolation as king may have contributed to his moral failure. We need accountability in our lives to help prevent sin.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_deceptiveness_of_desire.htm">The Deceptiveness of Desire</a></b><br>David's desire for Bathsheba led him to ignore God's commandments. We must guard our hearts against desires that lead us away from God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_need_for_repentance.htm">The Need for Repentance</a></b><br>Despite his sin, David's later repentance shows the importance of turning back to God and seeking His forgiveness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_grace_and_redemption.htm">God's Grace and Redemption</a></b><br>Even in the midst of sin, God's grace is available. David's lineage ultimately leads to Jesus, demonstrating God's redemptive plan.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_samuel_11.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Samuel 11</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_david's_quick_forgiveness_realistic.htm">In 2 Samuel 12:13, David’s quick confession leads to forgiveness, but is the swift absolution realistic given the gravity of adultery and murder? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_bathsheba's_bath_historical_or_narrative.htm">In 2 Samuel 11:2–5, is Bathsheba’s rooftop bathing a plausible historical scenario or a narrative device? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_nathan_confront_david's_sin.htm">How did Nathan confront David about his sin?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/did_david_rape_bathsheba.htm">Did David commit rape against Bathsheba?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_samuel/11.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(4) <span class= "bld">Sent messengers, and took her.</span>--This does not imply the use of violence. Bath-sheba, however beautiful, appears from the narrative of <a href="/context/1_kings/2-13.htm" title="And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Come you peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.">1Kings 2:13-22</a>, to have been a woman of little discretion, and now yielded to David's will without resistance, perhaps flattered by the approach of the king.<p><span class= "bld">For she was.</span>--Read, <span class= "ital">and she was. </span>Under the Law she was unclean until the evening. She therefore remained in David's palace until that time, scrupulous in this detail while conscious of a capital crime and a high offence against God. David, nevertheless, was a far greater offender.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_samuel/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 4.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">David sent messengers, and took</span> <span class="cmt_word">her</span>. David's fall seems as sudden as it was complete; but we may feel sure that there had been gradual preparation for it during the previous period of great prosperity. David had always been a man of strong passions, and the large harem he had set up at Jerusalem, so far from satisfying him, only intensified his lust. And now he who had previously shown himself so chivalrous and noble stoops to robbing one of his own officers of his honour. And stern and terrible was the punishment. When he sent those messengers, who were some of the vile people who hang about great personages, ready to minister to their sins, he was preparing the way for his daughter's disgrace, for the murder of Amnon, for Absalom's rebellion and death, and for the death of Adonijah. From that day his own house was the scene of horrible crimes, feuds, scandals, and miseries of every kind; and the long interval after his repentance, between the birth of Solomon and David's death, is passed over in gloomy silence. No act of the penitent king after his restoration to the throne is deemed worthy of record. He was pardoned, but his place henceforward was not in the light of God's favour, but in shadow and retirement. Men who fall so grievously must be content to be removed into the outer court. Of Bathsheba it must be said that she remained a faithful wife, and bare David four sons besides the one who was the fruit of their adultery, and that she retained her influence over him to the last (<a href="/1_chronicles/3-5.htm">1 Chronicles 3:5</a>; <a href="/1_kings/1-15.htm">1 Kings 1:15-31</a>). <span class="cmt_word">For she was purified from her uncleanness;</span> Hebrew, <span class="accented">and she purified herself from her uncleanness</span>; that is, having committed an act of gross immorality, she nevertheless carefully observed the ceremonial enactment commanded in <a href="/leviticus/15-18.htm">Leviticus 15:18</a>. She went home unrepentant, and with her conscience defiled, but was all the more scrupulous in performing the rite that purified her outwardly. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/2_samuel/11-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Then David</span><br /><span class="heb">דָּוִ֨ד</span> <span class="translit">(dā·wiḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> </span><span class="str2">David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse</span><br /><br /><span class="word">sent</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּשְׁלַח֩</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiš·laḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> </span><span class="str2">To send away, for, out</span><br /><br /><span class="word">messengers</span><br /><span class="heb">מַלְאָכִ֜ים</span> <span class="translit">(mal·’ā·ḵîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4397.htm">Strong's 4397: </a> </span><span class="str2">A messenger, of God, an angel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to get her,</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּקָּחֶ֗הָ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiq·qā·ḥe·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3947.htm">Strong's 3947: </a> </span><span class="str2">To take</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and when she came</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתָּב֤וֹא</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tā·ḇō·w)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come in, come, go in, go</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to him,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵלָיו֙</span> <span class="translit">(’ê·lāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near, with, among, to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he slept</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּשְׁכַּ֣ב</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiš·kaḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7901.htm">Strong's 7901: </a> </span><span class="str2">To lie down</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with her.</span><br /><span class="heb">עִמָּ֔הּ</span> <span class="translit">(‘im·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5973.htm">Strong's 5973: </a> </span><span class="str2">With, equally with</span><br /><br /><span class="word">(Now she</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהִ֥יא</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">had just purified herself</span><br /><span class="heb">מִתְקַדֶּ֖שֶׁת</span> <span class="translit">(miṯ·qad·de·šeṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Participle - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6942.htm">Strong's 6942: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be set apart or consecrated</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from her uncleanness.)</span><br /><span class="heb">מִטֻּמְאָתָ֑הּ</span> <span class="translit">(miṭ·ṭum·’ā·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2932.htm">Strong's 2932: </a> </span><span class="str2">Religious impurity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Then she returned</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתָּ֖שָׁב</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tā·šāḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">home.</span><br /><span class="heb">בֵּיתָֽהּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(bê·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/2_samuel/11-4.htm">2 Samuel 11:4 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/2_samuel/11-4.htm">OT History: 2 Samuel 11:4 David sent messengers and took her (2Sa iiSam 2 Sam ii sam) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_samuel/11-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Samuel 11:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 11:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_samuel/11-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Samuel 11:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 11:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>