2 Samuel 12:1-31 ESV

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:7

Thou art the man; thou hast committed this crime with great aggravations; and out of thine own mouth thy sentence hath proceeded, and thou art worthy of death. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:8

Thy master’s wives, or, women, as that word is elsewhere used; as Numbers 31:18. And though we read not a word of God’s giving, or of David’s taking, any of Saul’s wives into his bosom; or, which is all one, into his bed; yet (which I think to be aimed at here) it might be according to the manner of that time, that the wives and concubines of the precedent king belonged to the successor, to be at least at his dispose. And to pretend to them, was interpreted little less than pretending to the... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:9

The commandment of the Lord, i. e. those laws of God which forbade thee to do this thing, by not giving them that respect and observance which they deserved. Uriah the Hittite; that valiant, and generous, and noble person. Hast taken his wife to be thy wife: this he mentions amongst his other sins; partly because he had rewarded her, who by God’s law should have been severely punished; partly because he compassed this marriage by wicked practices, even by Uriah’s murder, and for sinful ends,... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:10

Shall never depart from thine house, during the residue of thy life; as appears from the following history. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:11

I will raise up evil, to wit, the evil of punishment. Out of thine own house; from thy own children and family. Before thine eyes, i. e. openly, so as thou shalt know it as certainly as if thou didst see it, and yet not be able to hinder it. Give them, i.e. I shall by my providence give him power over them, which I know he will abuse; and I shall not restrain him from so doing, either by my grace or providence. Unto thy neighbour; to one who is very near to thee, even thy beloved son Absalom.... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:12

I will do this thing, i.e. I will execute this judgment. This God did by inclining David’s heart to leave his concubines to keep his house, and so to come into Absalom’s power; by giving up Ahithophel to his own carnal policy, which readily suggested to him that wicked and desperate counsel; and by exposing Absalom to these temptations, and leaving him to his own vicious inclinations, which God certainly knew would in such circumstances produce that effect. So the sin was wholly from men, but... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:13

I have sinned against the Lord; I now freely confess that sin which I have hitherto so wickedly smothered; and I have deserved all these and far heavier judgments for it; and I am more troubled for my sin against my sovereign Lord and gracious God, than for the shame and punishment that follow it. How serious and pathetical this confession was, we may see, Psalms 51:0. The Lord also hath put away thy sin, i.e. so far as concerns thy own life and eternal salvation; both which were forfeited by... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:14

To blaspheme, i. e. to reproach both God and his people, and the true religion. For though these were not concerned in David’s sin, the blame and shame of which should have been appropriated to him; yet heathens and wicked men would, according to their own evil minds and malicious hearts, fasten the reproach of this upon God and religion; as if God were unholy, because the man after God’s own heart was so; and partial, in conniving at so great a crime, when Saul was cast off for a far less sin;... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:15

The Lord struck the child with some sudden and dangerous distemper. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:16

David besought God for the child; supposing the threatening might be conditional, and so the execution of it prevented by prayer. Went in, to wit, into his closet, as Matthew 6:6, to pray solitarily and earnestly, as he had done with others. Or this word may only note his progress and continuance in the actions here expressed. read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:12

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:14

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 12:16

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