2 Samuel 11:5 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 11:5

And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

KJV

And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And the woman conceived - A proof of the observation on 2Sa 11:4; as that is the time in which women are most apt to conceive.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתַּ֖הַר	va.Ta.har	and she conceived	H2029 →
הָֽאִשָּׁ֑ה	ha.'i.Shah	the woman	H802 →
וַתִּשְׁלַח֙	va.tish.Lach	and she sent	H7971 →
וַתַּגֵּ֣ד	va.ta.Ged	and she told	H5046 →
לְדָוִ֔ד	le.da.Vid	to David	H1732 →
וַתֹּ֖אמֶר	va.To.mer	and she said	H559 →
הָרָ֥ה	ha.Rah	[am] pregnant	H2030 →
אָנֹֽכִי׃	'a.No.khi	I	H595 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
leads to
- Leviticus 20:10
  If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
- John 8:4–5
  and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
- Ezekiel 23:45–47
  But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
- Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Ezekiel 16:38
  And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.
Through
Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
leads to
- Proverbs 27:4
  Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
- Song of Solomon 8:6
  Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest…
- Numbers 5:14
  and if a feeling of jealousy comes over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects her even though she…