2 Samuel 11:27 (KJV)

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And when the mourning was past David sent and fetched her to his house and she became his wife and bare him a son But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD

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Cross-references

fetched her. 2Sa 3:2-5 2Sa 5:13-16 2Sa 12:9 De 22:29

But the thing. Ge 38:10 1Ch 21:7

displeased. Heb. was evil in the eyes of. Ps 5:6 Ps 51:4 Ps 51:5 Heb 13:4

And when, etc.The whole of her conduct indicates that she observed the form, without feeling the power of sorrow. She lost a captain, and got a king for her husband: and therefore, {Lacrymas non sponte cadentes effudit; gemitusque expressit pectore laeto;} "She shed reluctant tears; and forced out groans from a joyful breast!"

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