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NASB | 2 Samuel 12:9 'Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Samuel 12:9 'Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife. You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. [Lev 20:10; 24:17] |
Bible Question: As part of my Bible Study class at school, my friend and I are required to teach our class about the story of David and Bathsheba. We area assigned 2 Samuel 5-7 and 11-12, but we are having a hard time with understanding some of the less obvious parts of the story. We understand that David sends Uriah into battle so that he may take the already pregnant Bathsheba as a wife, but the majority of 5-7 we would like some help in understanding. Thank you!!! |
Bible Answer: Hi Smartalek. I am likely to be taken to task for this by the forum, because we are not here to do peoples homework for them. Your Bible study class is just that, a place where you go to study the Bible. There are no shortcuts to be taken because you will only be fooling yourself if you think you have taken the easy route. As you think you may have gained, it actually is you who suffers the greater loss. I would normally not do this, but the moral is actually in the story, so I will put in 2 pence worth and hope you learn, as David learned. The story begins in 5:2 with a divine appointment from the Lord who said, "Thou shalt feed my people Israel" that is, he was to shepherd them in all things resulting in their benefit. David was thirty years old when he began his reign, the same age as Jesus was when He began His public ministry, and the same age that the priests were to begin the full capacity of their office. David was also successful in bringing back the ark, which was for many years neglected, making it no surprise that the spiritual condition of the kingdom was also in a state of wilderness. So chapter 7 finds David at rest. He stayed home from the battlefields at last, for as he claims in Psa 120:7, he was a man who desired peace. As he settled in his leisure after building a palace for himself, he was pondering the building of a house for the ark. However, Chapter 11 holds the adultery and murder David was guilty of. Not to mention the cover-up that was attempted when David tried to make Uriah out to be the father of his own sinful offspring. This therefore attests to the saying that the devil finds work for idle hands, and shows us that even the man after God's own heart is not safe. (may you be convicted into doing your own homework) We are shown here what the best of men will be up to when our Lord leaves us to ourselves, as the sin of sloth only produced more temptation to sin in David's life, and each sin led David deeper into the next sin. Finally we are told of David's repentance, in Ch 12. After being convicted by Nathan, David repented, but a contrite heart will not always do away with all physical consequences of sin and the produce of the affair still brought David much grief, adding further to his sorrow. Then we have an account of God's grace and forgiveness, with the birth of Solomon as evidence that God did not deal with David according to his sins. May our Lord bless you in your studies, keliy |
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