Spoken With Love: Week 1 Day 3

2 Samuel 11:1-5

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

2 Samuel 11:14-17

14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In 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.”

16 So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17 When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.

Ever hear the saying, “idle hands are the devil’s workshop”? David was considered by God as a man after God’s own heart, yet this godly man became idle. In verse one of today’s reading, we see that when King David was supposed to be off to war, he stayed home. Being home, we see that King David was reclining in his bed; notice it doesn’t say “he woke up”, but that “he got up” (2 Samuel 11:2); David was bored with nothing to do since he had forsaken the instruction of God. This boredom caused him to fall into a lustful desire for his dear friend’s wife. After pursuing his lustful desires, David had to respond to his adultery, but he chose to continue deceiving and lying until it resulted in him murdering his friend. This makes me think of two things:

Romans 6:23a says, “For the wages of sin is death.” What King David did was an example of this passage from Romans because David’s sin spiraled until someone in fact died!

Romans 1:24a states, “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts.” Sometimes, the punishment for sinning against God is being given over to sin; it creates a spiral, just like what happened to King David.

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