Then David sent messengers, and took her away: and she came unto him and he lay with her: (now she was (A)purified from her uncleanness) and she returned unto her house.

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Then David sent messengers to get her.(A) She came to him, and he slept(B) with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.)(C) Then she went back home.

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Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the [a]children of Ammon.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:9 Thou hast most cruelly given him into the hands of God’s enemies.

Why did you despise(A) the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down(B) Uriah(C) the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed(D) him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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