Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
In an evening-tide - David arose - He had been reposing on the roof of his house, to enjoy the breeze, as the noonday was too hot for the performance of business. This is still a constant custom on the flat-roofed houses in the East.
He saw a woman washing herself - How could any woman of delicacy expose herself where she could be so fully and openly viewed? Did she not know that she was at least in view of the king' s terrace? Was there no design in all this? Et fugit AD salices, et se cupit ante videri . In a Bengal town pools of water are to be seen everywhere, and women may be seen morning and evening bathing in them, and carrying water home. Thus David might have seen Bath-sheba, and no blame attach to her.
II Samuel 11:4 shows us that this washing was at the termination of a particular period.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 2 Samuel 11:2:
2 Samuel 16:21
Matthew 10:27
Mark 2:4
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