Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on 2 Samuel 11:3
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2 Samuel11:3
3. one said--literally, "he said to himself,"
Is not this Bath-sheba? &c.--She seems to have been a celebrated beauty, whose renown had already reached the ears of David, as happens in the East, from reports carried by the women from harem to harem.
Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam--or Ammiel (1Ch 3:5), one of David's worthies (2Sa 23:34), and son of Ahithophel.
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