Sunday, September 1, 2024

One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace

2 Samuel 11:1-13

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, 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.” Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.

So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.

Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!

Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.

Why?

One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. It means David began living in a deluxe and relaxed life. The bad idea came upon David, he tried to kill Urich to cover this sin.

After David knew Bathsheba was pregnant, David tried to cover these dirty things, and order Uriah to come back and go home with his wife, But Uriah was loyal to his country and mission. He refused to go home when his troops still fighting with enemies.

How great a solder, Uriah in Israel. but there is a worse king, David. killed him through others' hands.

How?

Our life and destination are in the hands of the Lord. The result was still good to Uriah, until he was dead he did not know what was going on.

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