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II Samuel 11: 27 And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought
her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing
David had done was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
David’s Justification and Blindness to what He had Done
Possibly a year went by after having committed this evil and there was no repentance
from David. He had closed his mind to the murder of Uriah due to Israel being a warring
nation for as he had said to Joab: “. . .
do not let this thing displease you, for the
sword devours one as well as another.”
It is hard to find David’s justification for having taken Uriah’s wife and committing
adultery with her even at that time, but he must have in some way and moved on with
his life. God’s laws had not been magnified then as they have been in the New
Testament.
The LORD God gave David time to come to himself and repent. Since it did not happen
He then send Nathan His prophet to David with the story of the Rich Man and his taking
for himself another person’s only lamb to be killed and eaten.
II Samuel 12:1-13 Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him,
and said to him: ‘There were two men in one city, one rich and the other
poor. The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. But the poor
man had nothing except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and
nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of
his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was
like a daughter to him.
And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock
and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come
to him; but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who
was come to him.
So David's anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to
Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this shall surely die!
And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and
because he had no pity.” Exodus 22:1.
Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of
Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of
Saul. I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your
keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been
too little, I also would have given much more!
Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his
sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his
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