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2Sa_11:13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
Ver. 13. And made him drunk.] Thus doth David still proficere in peius, proceed from bad to worse; So plying good Uriah with cup after cup, that at length he was intoxicated. Vina parant animos Veneri. {a} A stomach boiling with wine easily foameth into lust, saith Jerome. Wine is the milk of Venus, saith another. David’s design here was to make Uriah, contrary to his oath, to lie with his wife. Tiberius, otherwise spare of speech, yet when drunk, arcana effutiebat omnia, would utter all the secrets of his heart. {b} So David hoped that Uriah, when well heated with wine, would lay aside all his austerities, and take his pleasure. All this was so much the worse done of David, because though he was drunk, with lust, when he lay with Bathsheba, yet he was sober enough when he made Uriah drunk; he went quietly and sedately on in it. Ruina maiorum sit cautela minorum. Be not highminded, but fear.
With the servants of his lord.] With the hinds and household servants; not with the guard, as before; perhaps because ashamed that he was overcome with drink.
But went not down to his house.] And so David was still disappointed, and by God Almighty counterplotted, that he might at length awake "out of the snare of the devil, who had carried him alive captive at his pleasure." {2Ti_2:26}
{a} Ovid, De Rem. Am., lib. ii.
{b} Sueton.