Uriah the Hittite

Reflection #3 After reading chapters 5 and 6 from the text, please read the following passages and thoughtfully reflect on the questions. Upload your paper before the beginning of class on Monday, October 2. 1. Read Second Samuel 9-20 and First Kings 1-2. After having read this story, which most modern interpreters consider a single literary unit, reflect on and discuss the main characters: David, Bathsheba, Nathan, Joab, and Absalom. What adjectives come to mind in describing them? Are there

intentions and morals. When David all of a sudden sees a beautiful woman bathing, he feels like he can justify himself as someone who is deserving of her knowing that she is married to a friend and soldier. Uriah was in battle fighting and David impregnates his wife, Bathsheba. David immediately orders Uriah to come home so that he can cover up his

pain is real, despite the fact she is responsible for his death. David didn’t want to kill her husband, but honorable Uriah left him no choice when he refused David’s offers to return home for a respite from battle. Since Uriah spent no time with her, everyone, including Uriah, would know the child she carries is not her husband’s; thus an ill-conceived action plan, with Uriah on the front line, assured his death, along with collateral damage of 17 men. Such devastation and loss caused by one night

with a women named Bathsheba. Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah, a follower of King David and who was fighting for him. He saw her one day and though she was beautiful and desires her. Not only David had the thought of desire, but took it even further, he acted on his desire. He sent for her and lay with her. Bathsheba became pregnant and David tried to hide his sin, instead of accepting and confessing to God what he had done, he calls Uriah and asks him to go sleep with his wife to cover up that the

The Secret Chord Reading The Secret Chord A Novel by Geraldine Brooks was like reading about the biblical character King David for the first time. Author Ms. Brooks brought King David’s character to life. As I read, I hardly realized that the novel is over five-hundred pages. Brooks carefully built upon the biblical story of David. What I appreciate is that Brooks did not omit information rather she expanded on the facts colorfully and creatively. Some of the expansion is based on theory. However

By Thurmond L. Becote May 8, 2016 Table of Content Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………1 Thesis……………………………………………………………………………………………1 King David’s Raise to Fame……………………………………………………………………2 Bathsheba the Wife of Uriah…………………………………………………………………2-4 Uriah a Man of honor………………………………………………………………………….4-5 King David Fall to Shame……………………………………………………………………..5-6 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………...6-7 Introduction We have heard the story of David and Bathsheba many, many times

“AHIMELECH THE HITTITE” When Saul received a tip on David’s where being, He arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, with 3,000 chosen men of Israel, to kill David, and encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which was closer to the place where David and his men was located. When David saw that Saul came after him, he sent out spies to his camp, and they came to tell David that Saul have actually come to that place, and David arose and came to the place where Saul lay with his army around him. Then

"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

Chapter 7: Exposure Can Be a Blessing One of the main reasons why pastors and leaders do not come forth about their sin issue is because they have gotten by with it for so long until they feel there’s no need to come forth. They feel that as long as they can hide what they are really doing and who they really are, they are somehow getting away with it. Sadly, some preachers have addressed their sin issue only because they have gotten caught and exposed. When I was in sin, I was comfortable in

Perhaps surprisingly, Uriah clings to the standard practice of not engaging in carnal relations with his wife, insisting on maintaining his ritual purity for battle. We do not see anything in the Mosaic law that specifically requires this behavior from “Uriah the Hittite,” and, indeed, we have no concrete evidence that Uriah is Jewish. True, he is one of David’s elite troops, and he fights for Yahweh, but the Hittites were a heathen people, and we are left with an unsolved