October 7, 2021
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Reading along with us in 2 Samuel? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Samuel 11 (NIV)
David and Bathsheba
1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” ...........Continue Reading
This is a sad chapter for David and his Achilles heel of women! It reads like a soap opera of David making a terrible mistake and having to lie upon lie to try to fix things unfortunately just making the situation worse.
So many times our lies and sins drag others down either like Uriah-an innocent good man hurt by the lie or Joab-becoming a fellow cohort in our deceit. Sins have a way of deteriorating so many around us!
2 Samuel 11
It’s surprising that David would act in such a way that he should have know would be displeasing to the Lord. In his past actions, he was very careful to please the Lord.
Not really much to say except that nothing really good happens to us when we are where we shouldn’t be and doing something we shouldn’t. “David displeased the Lord”…….
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It is often when we are not doing what we should be that the temptation to do what we shouldn’t arises. How important it is to just look away or not follow through when wrong desire is generated. But David just goes from bad to worse in committing his sin and then trying to cover it up. It is sad that the gentile, lower class person is more noble than the king. And even sadder is this noble, dedicated man, who sees himself as the servant to the king and is dedicated to the cause and those on the battlefield is killed because of David’s indiscretion. And Joab is brought in as an accomplice. It all shows the deceptive, dangerous and far reaching nature of sin and we are wise to avoid it like the plague that it is.
2 Samuel 11
David’s servant behaves more nobly than him.
God doesn’t always give a judgment of the behavior of the Israelites, especially when it comes to men and multiple women. I am glad that God says, “But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord” but maybe it is referring to the murder of Uriah. Sometimes, (especially in Judges) it seems like the behavior of men (especially with regard to women) is just stated without comment and I have to think, “is this okay with God?”