The Sermon David & Bathsheba - Is There More to the Story? by David McGee
Sep 17, 2023
David & Bathsheba - Is There More to the Story? (32:27)
Referenced Scriptures: 2 Samuel 11:1-17; 2 Samuel 11:26-27; 2 Samuel 12:1-13; Psalm 51:1-4; Ephesians 3:20
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
2 Samuel 11:1-17
1) It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
2) It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king‘s house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
3) David send and inquired after the woman. One said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4) David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
5) The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
6) David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. Joab sent Uriah to David.
7) When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
8) David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. Uriah departed out of the king‘s house, and there followed him a mess [of food] from the king.
9) But Uriah slept at the door of the king‘s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn‘t go down to his house.
10) When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn‘t go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Haven‘t you come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?
11) Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
12) David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.
13) When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn‘t go down to his house.
14) It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15) He wrote in the letter, saying, Set you Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be struck, and die.
16) It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
17) The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
2 Samuel 11:26-27
26) When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
27) When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
2 Samuel 12:1-13
1) Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
2) The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
3) but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
4) A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man‘s lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."
5) David‘s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die!
6) He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!"
7) Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
8) I gave you your master‘s house, and your master‘s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
9) Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10) Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.‘
11) This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
12) For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.‘"
13) David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
Psalm 51:1-4
1) Have mercy on me, God, according to your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
2) Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
3) For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
4) Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.
Ephesians 3:20
20) Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
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