“But Adonai saw what David had done as evil.” -2 Samuel 11:28 Chapter 11 of 2nd Samuel is a perfect example of why we can trust the Scriptures to be true. This is something I’ve said before, but it bears repeating. In every period of history, whenever a biographer sat down to pen the deeds […]

“When the wife of Uriyah heard that Uriyah, her husband, was dead, she mourned her husband. When the mourning was over, David sent and took her home to his palace, and she became his wife and bore him a son.”-2 Samuel 11:26-27 2nd Samuel Chapter 11 closes with Bathsheba receiving the tragic news of her […]

“Yo’av sent a message to David reporting all the news concerning the war, and he instructed the messenger, ‘When you have finished telling the king all the news about the war, he may become angry and ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot […]

“So while Yo’av had the city under siege, he assigned Uriyah to the place where he knew the toughest defenders were.  The men of the city went out and fought Yo’av; a number of people fell, including some of David’s servants, with Uriyah the Hitti among the dead.”-2 Samuel 11:16-17 I once heard a story […]

David finds himself in a real bind. He knows it’s only a matter of time before his affair with Bathsheba becomes public. He also knows there’s no way he can cover up Bathsheba’s pregnancy. Try as hard as he could, Uriyah stubbornly refused to leave the palace and go home. So what does David do? […]