2 Kings 11:10
And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nuntiatumque est David a dicentibus : Non ivit Urias in domum suam. Et ait David ad Uriam : Numquid non de via venisti ? quare non descendisti in domum tuam ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀνήγγειλαν τῷ Δαυεὶδ λέγοντες ὅτι Οὐ κατέβη Οὐρείας εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ. καὶ εἶπεν Δαυεὶδ πρὸς Οὐρείαν Οὐχὶ ἐξ ὁδοῦ σὺ ἔρχῃ; τί ὅτι οὐ κατέβης εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּגִּ֤דוּ לְדָוִד֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹֽא יָרַ֥ד אוּרִיָּ֖ה אֶל בֵּית֑וֹ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד אֶל אוּרִיָּ֗ה הֲל֤וֹא מִדֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ אַתָּ֣ה בָ֔א מַדּ֖וּעַ לֹֽא יָרַ֥דְתָּ אֶל בֵּיתֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Journey, of thirty hours' length. (Adrichomius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LI
2. For there is written over it the title thereof, “A Psalm of David himself, when there came to him Nathan the prophet, when he went in unto Bersabee.” Bersabee was a woman, wife of another. With grief indeed we speak, and with trembling; but yet God would not have to be hushed what He hath willed to be written. I will say then not what I will, but what I am obliged; I will say not as one exhorting to imitation, but as one instructing you to fear. Captivated with this woman’s beauty, the wife of another, the king and prophet David, from whose seed according to the flesh the Lord was to come, committed adultery with her. This thing in this Psalm is not read, but in the title thereof it appeareth; but in the book of Kings it is more fully read. Both Scriptures are canonical, to both without any doubt by Christians credit must be given. The sin was committed, and was written down. …