SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:3
Y envió David a preguntar por aquella mujer, y le dijeron: Aquella es Betsabé hija de Eliam, mujer de Urías heteo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 11:3
Verse 3. The daughter of Eliam] Called, 1 Chron. iii. 5, Ammiel; a word of the same meaning, The people of my God, The God of my people. This name expressed the covenant-I will be your God; We will be thy people.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. And David sent and inquired after the woman , etc.] Who she was, what her name, and whether married or unmarried; if the latter, very probably his intention was to marry her, and he might, when he first made the inquiry, design to proceed no further, or to anything that was dishonourable; but it would have been better for him not to have inquired at all, and endeavoured to stifle the motions raised in him at the sight of her: and [one] said, [is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam ; who in ( 1 Chronicles 3:5); is called Bathshua, and her father Ammiel, which is the same with Eliam reversed: the wife of Uriah the Hittite ? who either was of that nation originally, and became a proselyte; or had sojourned there for a while, and took the name or had it given him, for some exploit he had performed against that people, as Scipio Africanus, and others among the Romans; this was said by one that David inquired of, or heard him asking about her, and was sufficient to have stopped him from proceeding any further, when he was informed she was another man’s wife: some say she was the daughter of Ahithophel’s son; (see 2 Samuel 23:34).
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
וישׁלח 7971 דוד 1732 וידרשׁ 1875 לאשׁה 802 ויאמר 559 הלוא 3808 זאת 2063 בת־שׁבע 1339 בת 1323 אליעם 463 אשׁת 802 אוריה 223 החתי׃ 2850
