2 Samuel 11:27
Good News Translation
When the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to the palace; she became his wife and bore him a son. But the LORD was not pleased with what David had done.

New Revised Standard Version
When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD,

Contemporary English Version
Then after the time for mourning was over, David sent someone to bring her to the palace. She became David's wife, and they had a son. The LORD was angry because of what David had done,

New American Bible
But once the mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her into his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. But in the sight of the LORD what David had done was evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.

And when, etc.

fetched her

2 Samuel 3:2-5 And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn was Ammon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess: . . .

2 Samuel 5:13-16 And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and daughters: . . .

2 Samuel 12:9 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Deuteronomy 22:29 He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.

But the thing

Genesis 38:10 And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing:

1 Chronicles 21:7 And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel.

Psalm 5:6 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

Psalm 51:4,5 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged. . . .

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
David Marries Bathsheba
26And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and she mourned for him. 27And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.
Cross References
Matthew 1:6
And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias.

2 Samuel 12:9
Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 15:26
But if he shall say to me: Thou pleasest me not: I am ready, let him do that which is good before him.

Psalm 51:4
To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

Psalm 51:5
For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

2 Samuel 11:26
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