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David and Bathsheba
Who knows the story of David and Bathsheba?
Every Sunday school teacher loves teaching the Story of David & Goliath but the story of David AND Bathsheba is not so popular
Its only fair that last time I got David & Goliath
1.The first story we see and young Shepard boy do great things through God, in the second we see a powerful king brought low by his sin
The war
Previously, David sent messengers to Hamon King of the Ammonites
Hamon, king of the Ammonites humiliated and shamed the messengers
By humiliating Israels messengers he humiliated all Israel, its King, and God.
King Hamon of the Ammonites hires soldiers of from the Syrians to help fight against David.
The Ammonite and Syrian forces are defeated by Joab and the army of Israel
The Syrian’s gather their entire force (very large) to fight against Israel
David takes his entire army to fight the Syrian’s and defeats them, increasing his power and leaving the Ammonites without allies to defend them.
11 iIn the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel.
And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.
But David remained at Jerusalem.
With the Ammonite and Syrian armies defeated David is able to send his army to the Ammonite’s capital city of Rabbah
This is where Hanun, the Ammonite king that humiliated David’s messengers lives
For whatever reason, we are told that David sends Joab his commander and all Israel but he himself stays behind in Jerusalem
Why do you think David may have decided not to go?
David decides not to
Be with his army that he commands
Be with the ark of God
we are told later that the Ark of God went with the army
To defend the honor of Israel and its God
Remember, this war started because Hanun humiliated Israel’s messengers
David took some “me time”
Rest can give us the strength to serve better
“Me time” is the deliberately pursuing selfish desires with no thought to God or others
It is purely sinful
In Christ we see that he did sleep, and he set aside time to be in prayer with God.
He never gave an instant of his life to pursue his own self interest
This selfish decision is going to have disastrous consequences
2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
3 And David sent and inquired about the woman.
And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her.
(Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.)
Then she returned to her house.
5 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”
So now that David has taken some personal “me time” he is going to be refreshed and rested to better love and serve his people and his God
The focus, as is all the bible, on God.
We see God taking the initiative to reconcile with David.
It is God’s mercy and steadfast love that is on display.
Right?
I mean that’s what we would expect to see.
A little time for yourself so that you can give to others.
What did happen?
David was instead filled with Greed
What is Greed?
Greed is the desire for more
Is a greedy person ever satisfied?
Greed cannot every be satisfied, the moment you get something you desired you can only want more
I have toddlers, they demonstrate greed very obviously
One can literally have arms full of toys, but see another child with a toy and suddenly that is the only thing they want.
Even if they get that toy then suddenly another child grabs a different toy and suddenly that is the only thing they want.
Are we or David any different?
Greed is never satisfied and never happy, the greedy person always thinks that they deserve more
What is the opposite of a Greedy person?
A “thankful” person
A thankful person realizes that they did not deserve any good thing, but appreciate every good thing God has provided
Considers what he does have, and is able to be happy and rejoice in what God has provided
The Greedy person can have much, but is never satisfied.
The thankful person can have little and be content and happy.
David had many wives but was not content
His own wives were beautiful woman
But David was not looking at what he had
His greed caused him to take the wife of one of his soldiers that is faithfully serving him.
We read that after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba he sent her away
He probably thought that his sin would go unnoticed
Soon after, probably about 6 weeks, she sends word to David that she is pregnant
The adultery will surely be found out, since her husband is out to war, the child cannot be his.
The old testament punishment for Adultery was stoning to death both the man and the woman.
So now we must be at the point where David repents and seeks mercy for his sin
Is that what happens next?
6 So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.”
And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.
8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.”
And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king.
9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
10 When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey?
Why did you not go down to your house?” 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field.
Shall I then go to 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.”
Rather than confessing, David tries to hide his sin
David calls Bathsheba’s husband back from the fighting in the hopes that he will sleep with his wife and think that the baby is his own.
The plan fails
Uriah is unwilling to selfishly enjoy his time back knowing that his comrades and the ark of God are in the open field as they battle Israel’s enemies
Uriah’s convictions are good and noble
The next day, David gets Uriah drunk in the hopes that he will ignore his convictions
David is trying to get Uriah to stumble and sin
David is the man that would lead Israel in praise and worship of God, and now he has fallen to trying to cause others to sin
David’s plan fails, and although he gets Uriah drunk Uriah does not go to his house.
Unable to hide his sin, David now goes even further as we will read.
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”
16 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.
17 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell.
Uriah the Hittite also died.
David not only decides to have Uriah killed, but he sends Uriah with the letter containing the orders
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