Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 12:12

For thou didst [it] secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

I will do this thing, i.e. I will execute this judgment. This God did by inclining Davids heart to leave his concubines to keep his house, and so to come into Absaloms power; by giving up Ahithophel to his own carnal policy, which readily suggested to him that wicked and desperate counsel; and by exposing Absalom to these temptations, and leaving him to his own vicious inclinations, which God certainly knew would in such circumstances produce that effect. So the sin was wholly from men, but the ordering and overruling their mistakes and miscarriages to this end was from God.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

For thou didst [it] secretly,…. Committed adultery with Bathsheba privately, and endeavoured to conceal it, by getting her husband killed in battle, and then marrying her as soon as he could to hide the shame of it:

but one will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun; as the above fact was; that is, he would suffer it to he done, and so order it in his providence, that everything should concur to the doing of it; as David’s leaving his wives behind him, Ahithophel’s wicked counsel he was suffered to give, and the lustful inclination Absalom was left unto, and not any of the people of Israel having religion, spirit, and courage enough to remonstrate against it.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

2Sa 12:12 For thou didst [it] secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

Ver. 12. For thou didst it secretly. ] As fearing men more than me; whereas an honest heathen could say, Although I were sure homines ignoraturos, et Deos ignoscituros, a that men knew it not, and that the gods would pardon it, yet for the filth that is in sin, I would not commit it. It is not for men to put their sins in a secret place, as Deu 27:15 , to pull down the bush with a vintner, for God will detect them and men shall detest them; at the last day howsoever, if not before, when every man’s faults shall be written in his forehead, and, it shall be said, Behold the man, and behold his works.

Before all Israel. ] Palam et publice: yea, thou shalt voluntarily shame and shent thyself, doing penance for thine offence, as it were, in a white sheet. Psa 51:1 , title

And before the sun. ] For Absalom abused his father’s concubines on the house top: and haply on that same terrace from whence he first looked, liked, and lusted after Bathsheba.

a Seneca.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

thou. See note on 2Sa 12:9.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

secretly: 2Sa 11:4, 2Sa 11:8, 2Sa 11:13, 2Sa 11:15, Ecc 12:14, Luk 12:1, Luk 12:2, 1Co 4:5

Reciprocal: Gen 45:5 – God 2Sa 16:11 – Behold 2Sa 16:22 – went in Job 24:15 – eye Job 34:26 – in Eze 14:9 – if the Eph 5:12 – in

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge