Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
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Gill's Exposition
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house,.... During his life, and as appeared in the slaughter of his sons Ammon and Absalom before his death, and of Adonijah quickly after, and in…
Adam Clarke
Thou hast killed Uriah - Thou art the Murderer, as having planned his death; the sword of the Ammonites was Thy instrument only.
It seems to have been a great while after David had been guilty of adultery with Bath-sheba before he was brought to repentance for it. For, when Nathan was sent to him, the child was born (Sa2…
Cambridge Bible
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of theLord] Cp. Num 15:31; 1Sa 15:23; 1Sa 15:26. Great as was David's sin against Uriah and Bath-sheba, his sin against God was greater in thus breaking…
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