2 Samuel 11:1-5

David and Bathsheba

1 h i In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged j Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on k the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this l Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of m Uriah the Hittite?" 4 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. ( n Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. 5 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, "I am pregnant."

  1. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 20:1
    In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Joab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 20:22
    Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, "Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you.
    1 Kings 20:26
    In the spring, Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
    2 Chronicles 36:10
    In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
  3. Cross References
    2 Samuel 12:26
    Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
    Deuteronomy 3:11
    (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
  4. Cross References
    1 Samuel 9:25
    And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.
  5. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 3:5
    These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel.
  6. Cross References
    2 Samuel 23:39
    Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
  7. Cross References
    Leviticus 15:19
    When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
    Leviticus 15:28
    But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
    Leviticus 18:19
    You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
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