SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:2
Y acaeció que levantándose David de su cama a la hora de la tarde, se paseaba por el terrado de la casa real, cuando vio desde el terrado una mujer que se estaba bañando, la cual era muy hermosa.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:2
Verse 2. In an evening-tide-David arose] He had been reposing on the roof of his house, to enjoy the breeze, as the noonday was too hot for the performance of business. This is still a constant custom on the flat-roofed houses in the East. He saw a woman washing herself] How could any woman of delicacy expose herself where she could be so fully and openly viewed? Did she not know that she was at least in view of the king's terrace? Was there no design in all this? Et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri. In a Bengal town pools of water are to be seen everywhere, and women may be seen morning and evening bathing in them, and carrying water home. Thus David might have seen Bath-sheba, and no blame attach to her.
Ver. 4 shows us that this washing was at the termination of a particular period.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. And it came to pass in an eveningtide , etc.] Some time in the afternoon, when the sun began to decline; not in the dusk of the evening, for then the object he saw could not have been seen so distinctly by him: that David arose from off his bed ; having taken a nap in the heat of the day after dinner; indulging himself more than he used to do to sloth and luxury, which prepared him, and led him on the more eagerly to the lust of uncleanness: and walked upon the roof of the king’s house ; to refresh himself after his sleep, it being the cool of the day, and the roof of the house being flat and fit to walk upon, as the houses of Judea were; (see Deuteronomy 22:8); and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself ; in a bath in her garden, or in an apartment in her house, the window being open: and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon ; of a fine shape and good complexion, and comely countenance; all which were incentives to lust, at which his eye was attracted to, and his heart was ensnared with her.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - Observe the occasions of David's sin; what led to it. 1. Neglect of his business. He tarried at Jerusalem. When we are out of the way of ou duty, we are in temptation. 2. Love of ease: idleness gives grea advantage to the tempter. 3. A wandering eye. He had not, like Job made a covenant with his eyes, or, at this time, he had forgotten it And observe the steps of the sin. See how the way of sin is down-hill when men begin to do evil, they cannot soon stop. Observe the aggravations of the sin. How could David rebuke or punish that is others, of which he was conscious that he himself was guilty?
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 לעת 6256 הערב 6153 ויקם 6965 דוד 1732 מעל 5921 משׁכבו 4904 ויתהלך 1980 על 5921 גג 1406 בית 1004 המלך 4428 וירא 7200 אשׁה 802 רחצת 7364 מעל 5921 הגג 1406 והאשׁה 802 טובת 2896 מראה 4758 מאד׃ 3966
