DAVID AND BATHSHEBA (2 SAMUEL 11)

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DAVID AND PROPHET NATHAN (FROM 2 SAMUEL 12) THE GREAT TRIAL VERSES NO.21-25

      One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked about up there, he saw a woman having a bath. She was very beautiful. So he sent a Messenger to find out who she was, and learnt that she was Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of URIAH the HITTITE. David sent messengers to fetch her: they brought her to him and he made love to her. Then she went back home. Afterward she discovered that she was pregnant and sent a messenger to David to tell him.

      David then sent a message to JOAB: ``SEND ME URIAH THE HITTITE'' So Joab sent him to David. ...then he said to URIAH; go home and rest a while. URIAH left, and David sent a present to his home. But Uria did not go home. Instead he slept at the palace gate with the kings guards. When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he asked him; ``You have just returned after a long absence; why didn't you go home? Uriah answered; ``The men of Israel and Judah are away at war, and the Covenant Box is with them; my commander Joab and his officers are camping out in the open. How could I go home, eat and drink and sleep with my wife? By all that's sacred, I swear that I could never do such a thing!''

      ...14- The next day David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by Uriah. He wrote: ``Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is heaviest, then retreat and let him be killed.'' So while Joab was besieging the city he sent Uriah to a place where he knew the enemy was strong. The enemy troops came out of the city and fought Joab's forces. Some of David's officers were killed, and so was Uriah.

      When Bathsheba heard that her husband had been killed, she mourned for him. When the time of mourning was over, David sent for her to come to the palace. She became his wife and bore him a son, but the Lord was not pleased with what David had done.

 

 

 

 

DAVID AND PROPHET NATHAN (FROM 2 SAMUEL 12) THE GREAT TRIAL VERSES NO.21-25
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