2 Samuel 11:3 Meaning and Explanation
“And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
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Read Full Chapter →David asks who the woman is and learns she is Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah.
What Does 2 Samuel 11:3 Mean?
David sends to learn the woman's identity. The answer comes layered with warnings: she is Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, and the wife of Uriah the Hittite. The unnamed servant's very phrasing, framed as a question, seems to plead caution.
Every word of the reply was a door God left open for David to retreat: she belongs to another, and to a man among his own loyal warriors. Knowledge of the truth is meant to restrain desire, not merely to inform it. David is told exactly what he most needs to hear to stop, and the tragedy of the chapter is that he hears it and presses on anyway. Truth resisted hardens into ruin.
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What does 2 Samuel 11:3 mean?
David asks who the woman is and learns she is Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah.