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2Sa_12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Ver. 10. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house.] Never, that is, so long as thou livest, as 1Sa_1:22 Gen_43:9. Or, which I like better, From one generation to another, even for many ages. And so this threatening was performed in the slaughter of Amnon, Absalom, Adonijah, the five sons of Jehoshaphat, {2Ch_21:17} all the sons of Joram except Ahaziah, afterwards killed also, {2Ch_22:7} all the king’s seed killed by Athaliah but Joash, and he also afterwards by his servants, {2Ch_24:1-27} his son Amaziah slain, {2Ch_25:27} and Josiah, {2Ch_35:24} and the sons of Zedekiah. {2Ki_25:7} {a}
Because thou hast despised me.] In thinking to sin secretly, not considering mine all-seeing eye, nor caring though I looked on.
And hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite.] To conceal your adultery, and to cover your shame, which you mainly minded in that marriage, whereunto you made way by the murder of that good man.
{a} Weems.