2 Samuel
11:26-12:17
26 When the wife of Uriah heard
that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband. 27 And when the mourning was
over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore
him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
12 And the Lord sent Nathan to
David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain 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
but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew
up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from
his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. 4 Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was
unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had
come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” 5 Then David’s anger was greatly kindled
against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to
die, 6 and 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! Thus says the
Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of
the hand of Saul. 8 And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and
gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would
add to you as much more. 9 Why have you despised the word
of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the
Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed
him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall
never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the
wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the Lord, ‘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 shall 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 the
Lord.”
And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 Nevertheless, because by this
deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.” 15 Then Nathan went to his house.
And the
Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick. 16 David therefore sought God on
behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the
ground. 17 And the elders of his house
stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he
eat food with them.
I enjoy
the way the prophets can turn on people. Nathan appears to tell David an
innocent story. Nathan uses this simple story to report David’s Crime. David is the one, the
man, who killed and stole the wife of an innocent.
God
certainly has done a lot for King David. He placed him over all his people and
even leadership of the Army. God provided David with a Palace and a Family. It
would be easy to have you think of all the things God has blessed you with. Or
maybe you should focus on the consequences of your actions.
It is
difficult to see the blessings God has given you. It is hard to know what the
right thing to do is. David finds himself praying for the life of his child.
The child will die, just like Jesus Christ. This child dies for the sins of
David. Jesus dies for the forgiveness of David and all the other sinners out
there.
Jesus
Christ is the ewe lamb treasured by God whom we steal and slaughter for our own
Passover Celebration. You are the Man! You are Forgiven!
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