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2 Samuel 11 NKJV
1 ¶ It happened in the spring of the year, at the
time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants
with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged
Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
2 Then it happened one evening that David arose
from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he
saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold.
3 So David sent and inquired about the woman.
And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam,
the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
4 Then David sent messengers, and took her; and
she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity;
and she returned to her house.
5 And the woman conceived; so she sent and told
David, and said, “I am with child.”
6 ¶ Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send
me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked how
Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered.
8 And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your
house and wash your feet.” So Uriah departed from the king’s house, and a gift of
food from the king followed 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 So when they told David, saying, “Uriah did
not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Did you not come from a
journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”
11 And Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel
and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord
are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink,
and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I
will not do this thing.”
12 Then David said to Uriah, “Wait here today
also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that
day and the next.
13 Now when David called him, he ate and drank
before him; and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed
with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
14 ¶ In the morning it happened that David wrote a
letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set
Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may
be struck down and die.”
16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that
he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.
17 Then the men of the city came out and fought
with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and
Uriah the Hittite died also.
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her
husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27 And when her 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.
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
Satan is looking for an
opportune time to tempt you.
· Luke 4:13 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.
Nothing good happens after
midnight.
· Our natural ability to resist impulse and opportunity wanes with every hour after lunch … once dark, impulse driven sin rises.
Sin can claim more of your
life than you first imagined.
· It was months and perhaps years before David faced what he had done.
I hesitate to leave David in this place for an extra week but this is where he lived, not in secret, but openly for a long time. He will be ok for a few days until we can finish this story.
Years later, David wrote a song about this situation. We
will read it from Psalms 51 before we finish this full account of David’s life.
