2 Kings 11:5
And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et reversa est domum suam concepto fœtu. Mittensque nuntiavit David, et ait : Concepi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐν γαστρὶ ἔλαβεν ἡ γυνή, καὶ ἀποστείλασα ἀπήγγειλεν τῷ Δαυεὶδ καὶ εἶπεν Ἐγώ εἰμι ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχω.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתַּ֖הַר הָֽאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתִּשְׁלַח֙ וַתַּגֵּ֣ד לְדָוִ֔ד וַתֹּ֖אמֶר הָרָ֥ה אָנֹֽכִי
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. …