2 Samuel 12:18 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | NLT

Then on the seventh day the child died. David’s advisers were afraid to tell him. “He wouldn’t listen to reason while the child was ill,” they said. “What drastic thing will he do when we tell him the child is dead?”

Commentaries

2

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died ,
&c.] Not the seventh day from its being taken ill, but…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

David now penned the 51st Psalm, in which, though he had been assured that his sin was pardoned, he prays earnestly for pardon and greatly laments …