Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed (A)and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he (B)saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not [a]Bathsheba, the daughter of [b]Eliam, the wife (C)of Uriah the (D)Hittite?” Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and (E)he lay with her, for she was (F)cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 11:3 Bathshua, 1 Chr. 3:5
  2. 2 Samuel 11:3 Ammiel, 1 Chr. 3:5

One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof(A) of the palace. From the roof he saw(B) a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba,(C) the daughter of Eliam(D) and the wife of Uriah(E) the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her.(F) She came to him, and he slept(G) with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.)(H) Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

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Job Defends His Righteousness

31 “I have made a covenant with my eyes;
Why then should I [a]look upon a (A)young woman?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:1 look intently or gaze

31 “I made a covenant with my eyes(A)
    not to look lustfully at a young woman.(B)

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25 (A)Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.

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25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

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19 (A)For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

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19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.(A)

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14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.

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14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own(A) evil desire and enticed.

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15 Then, (A)when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, (B)brings forth death.

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15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;(A) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.(B)

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