2 Samuel 11:4 meaning and explanation
Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
2 Samuel 11:4, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
David is the king, staying in Jerusalem while his army besieges Rabbah, and Bathsheba has been identified as the wife of Uriah the Hittite, one of David's soldiers. The parenthetical note that she had just purified herself from her uncleanness refers to the ritual cleansing after menstruation, which places the encounter at a time she could conceive.
Read and study this verse. Three complete study layers are included with Premium.