Introduction
To some, it is a story of judgment and condemnation. Others see it as a story of grace, restoration, and hope. For those willing to admit their sin and accept God's judgment, grace, and restoration, it is both.
For those of us who have experienced moral failure, divorce, or other such life experience, it is a message of hope, healing, and restoration that reminds us that God's agenda is not to crush sinners under his feet, but to heal them and restore their relationship with Him.
For the sake of fast page loading, we've divided this study into four parts. In Part 1, The Sin, we will examine how David and Bathsheba got into this mess in the first place. Part 2, The Cover-up, looks at the frantic efforts of David to hide his
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As usual, sin had its consequences:
5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am pregnant."
Oops.
David hadn't planned on that possibility.
Part 2: The Cover-up
David had sinned, and as usual, sin had its consequences:
5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am pregnant."
David, demonstrating that he was just like the rest of us, went with his first instinct; he tried to cover up his sin and shift the responsibility to someone else:
6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and the people and the state of the war.
8 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and a present from the king was sent out after him.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10 Now when they told David, saying, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"
11 Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and
David joined forces with the Philistines because his faith was weak and he faked being mentally insane. Therefore, he was really not mental but struggled with believing in Gods covenant. Not to mention he had two wives he just was refusing to go out in battle and support his troop by being an effective leader. In modern day terms he punk-out sending his troops out to battle without him while he played the coward staying behind stirring up trouble.
Uriah refused to go home to his wife, so David sent Uriah to the front lines of battle, where he was killed. David then married Bathsheba. When confronted by Nathan the prophet, David admitted his sin. In punishment, Bathsheba’s child died and David was cursed with the promise of a rebellion from within his own house. Bathsheba and David soon conceived a second son, Solomon.
In 2 Samuel the narrative shifts to the reign of David as he rises above Saul’s son Ish-bosheth to become the king, first of Judah and then of all the tribes of Israel (5:1–4). The book records David’s wars of conquest including the capture of Jerusalem and the relocation of the ark of the covenant to the City of David (6:1–19). But the author also records David’s failures: his adultery with Bathsheba (11:1–26), Absalom’s rebellion (15:1–18:30), Sheba’s revolt (20:1–26), and the disastrous census (24:1–25). Like all the prophetic writers, the author presents a portrait of his historical figures from the perspective of their faithfulness to God’s covenant.
David from his appearance and had little belief in him to do anything about the situation with
While David did not know anything that was going on between his uncle and father David still went on this long journey. When David had finally arrived to his location, his uncle had unlocked the door. When his uncle had unlocked, and opened the door David became very nervous and terrified because he did not know that was his uncle, and when he had opened the door his uncle had looked very terrifying. At first his uncle seemed very calm and welcoming but it was all just pretend. It turned out that his uncle was trying to kill him. One night, it was a serious thunderstorm going on and Ebenezer had made David go up five stories of the house by an outside stair to fetch some papers. In doing this his uncle, Ebenezer, hoped that he would fall to
As future king and the hero who slew Goliath, David’s life had star quality. Like public figures today, there was interest in his life. News today spreads faster, but the news about the famous always discovered by the people.
Bathsheba and Nathan the prophet were the moving impendence for David to fulfill his promised/duty.
David said, “ King came with me out of his own will, he truly loved me”. David became teary as he spoke of what happened next, “On our trip to Denmark we ran across two Guards we could not go passed them and live that was when King ran and laid his life down for mine; that day I had never felt more true love than right there”.
in your book before one of them came to be (David).” In this verse alone, all arguments that
and their army. David was sent to give food to the Israel army. In doing so heard Goliath
David also prays that God’s people can learn from God’s example. David is praising God, saying that there is no one like him and no other nation that compares to Israel. He asks that God will carry out his promises towards Israel- keeping his people as his own, forever. David ends his prayer by asking God for a blessing that David’s house will last
“Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David.” Kings 2:10,
12 Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 13 Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have
God promised to David that he was to serve as the shepherd to the people and leader of Israel.
The ultimate goal here is to challenge the writer find a definitive reason for the downfall of King David who is said to be a man after God’s own heart.