Davids Sin with Bathsheba: 2 Samuel 11:127

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Davids Sin with Bathsheba2 Samuel 111-27

• Forest Hills Bible Chapel
• 5 April 2009

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Davids Sin with Bathsheba

• David is the godliest king that Israel ever had
  a man after Gods own heart.
• Davids heart is tender toward God as is
  evidenced by his hearts response to cutting
  Sauls garment, as well as to his sin in
  numbering the people.
• Davids Sin with Bathsheba is a pivotal moment in
  Davids life and career Gods forgiveness is
  real, but so are the effects of Davids sin.

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2 Samuel 111-27

• 1In the spring, at the time when kings go off to
  war, David sent Joab out with the kings men and
  the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the
  Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained
  in Jerusalem. 2One 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, 3and 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.

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2 Samuel 111-27

• 4Then 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. 5The woman conceived and
  sent word to David, saying, I am pregnant.

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Davids Sin with Bathsheba

• Davids pride and arrogance put him in a
  dangerous place vv. 1-2a.
• Davids pride and arrogance caused him to do
  something despite the fact that he knew it was
  wrong vv. 2a-4.

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2 Samuel 111-27

• 6So David sent this word to Joab Send me Uriah
  the Hittite. And Joab sent him to David. 7When
  Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was,
  how the soldiers were and how the war was going.
  8Then 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. 9But
  Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with
  all his masters servants and did not go down to
  his house.

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2 Samuel 111-27

• 10David was told, Uriah did not go home. So he
  asked Uriah, Havent you just come from a
  military campaign? Why didnt you go home?
  11Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and
  Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab
  and my lords 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!

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2 Samuel 111-27

• 12Then 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. 13At
  Davids 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
  masters servants he did not go home.

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Davids Sin with Bathsheba

• David plots to cover up his sin, something which
  is ultimately not possible.
• The story of Davids attempt to get Uriah and
  Bathsheba together is classic tragic comedy
  and illustrates how sad and pathetic were his
  attempts to hide his sin - vv. 10-13

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2 Samuel 111-27

• 14In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and
  sent it with Uriah. 15In it he wrote, Put Uriah
  out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then
  withdraw from him so he will be struck down and
  die. 16So while Joab had the city under siege,
  he put Uriah at a place where he knew the
  strongest defenders were. 17When the men of the
  city came out and fought against Joab, some of
  the men in Davids army fell moreover, Uriah the
  Hittite died.

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Davids Sin with Bathsheba

• Davids attempt to cover up his sin, when it
  failed, led to arguably greater and more
  destructive sin vv. 14-16.
• David lied, as it were, in order to cover up his
  murder of Uriah this is arguably David at his
  most loathsome, and this is what sin does to us
  vv. 18-25.

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2 Samuel 111-27

• 26When Uriahs wife heard that her husband was
  dead, she mourned for him. 27After the time of
  mourning was over, David had her brought to his
  house, and she became his wife and bore him a
  son. But the thing David had done displeased the
  Lord.

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Davids Sin with Bathsheba

• No doubt David thought that, with the death of
  Uriah, his sin with Bathsheba would never be
  discovered vv. 26-27a.
• But, the thing that David did displeased the
  Lord. v. 27 b.
• We can be certain of this our sin will
  eventually be dealt with. Either we will confess
  it to God and receive his forgiveness, or it will
  track us down and destroy us Numbers 3223.