Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
one said—literally, "he said to himself,"
Is not this Bath-sheba? etc.—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 (I Chronicles 3:5), one of David's worthies (II Samuel 23:34), and son of Ahithophel.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Samuel 11:3:
2 Samuel 11:2
1 Chronicles 3:5
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