2 Samuel 11:1-21

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Father, we thank you for this time together and thank you for our brother Mike as he is prepared.

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We pray Lord that you would bless him, use him as he brings forth your word, that our ears and our hearts would be open to receive, pray that we would not just have this come as additional information, but it would be information that changes our lives, that we would be conformed more to the image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray.

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Amen.

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All right.

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We can start now.

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Chapter 11, 2 Samuel.

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I'll be just honest, I don't know how far we'll get, so 11 and 12 come as a, actually 11, 12, and 13 come as a unit, and I want to explain to you why.

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Both of them deal with sexual sin and murder.

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So as we read through the chapter 11, the Scripture doesn't really shy away from what takes place in the next few chapters.

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So some of it should be repulsive to you as this takes place.

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So as we read it, if it bothers you, it should.

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So I'll read chapter 11.

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Then it happened in the spring, at the time when the kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all of Israel.

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And they destroyed the sons of Ammon, and they besieged Rabbah.

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And David stayed at Jerusalem.

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Now when the evening came, David arose from his bed, and he walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman, and she was bathing, and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

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So David sent, and he inquired about the woman, and the one said, this is, is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? David sent messengers and took her.

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She came to him.

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He lay with her, and when she had been purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

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The woman conceived, and she sent, and she told David, she said, I am pregnant.

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And David sent to Joab, saying, send me Uriah the Hittite.

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So Joab sent Uriah to David, and when Uriah had come to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and the people of the state of the war.

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And then David said to Uriah, go down to your house and wash your feet.

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And Uriah went out of the king's house, and to present, I'm sorry, and Uriah went out of the king's house, and a present from the king was sent out after him.

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But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and he did not go down to his house.

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Now when they told David, saying Uriah did not go home, David said to Uriah, have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house? And Uriah said to David, the ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, they are all camping out in the open field.

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Shall I then go to my house and eat, drink, and lie with my wife? By your life and by the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.

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Then David said to Uriah, stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go.

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So Uriah remained in Jerusalem to the next day.

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Now David called him, and he ate with him, and he drank before him, and David made him drunk.

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And in the evening he went out to lie on his bed and his lord's servants, but he did not go down to his house.

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Now in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

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He had written on the letter saying this, place Uriah at the front line of the fiercest battle and then withdraw from him so that he may be struck down and die.

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So it was that Joab kept watch on the city, then he put Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men, and the men of the city went out, and they fought against Joab.

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And some of the people among David's servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

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Then Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war.

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He charged a messenger saying, when you have finished telling all these events of the war to the king, the king's wrath will arise, and he may say to you, why did you go near to the city to fight? Why did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? Who struck down Abimelech, the son of Jerobesheth? Did not a woman throw down an upper millstone on him from the wall, and he died at the bees? Why did you go near to the wall? Then you shall say, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

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So the messenger departed.

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He came and reported to David all that Joab had sent to tell him, and the messenger said to David, the men prevailed against us.

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They came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.

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Moreover, the archers shot at your servants from the wall.

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So some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

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Then David said to the messengers, thus you shall say to Joab, do not let this thing despise you or displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another.

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Make your battle against the city stronger, overthrow it, and so be encouraged.

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Now when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband, and when the time of the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son.

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But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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There are probably two major stories everybody remembers about David, and it's David and so-and-so.

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So it would be David and Goliath, and David and Bathsheba.

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The pinnacle of what we would see is David's defeating of the giant, of the enemy, and then David's demise.

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Interesting, if you were to take 1 Samuel, if you remember when we were going through 1 Samuel, chapter 11 was the pinnacle of Saul's reign.

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It was where he acted the best towards God's people and towards delivering them, and it's interesting when you get to chapter 11 of 2 Samuel, this is the worst of King David.

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This section will be the worst of King David.

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I do want to say right up front as well that y'all may disagree with me on how I come to the conclusion of David's sin.

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It is a grievous sin, but I'm just going to tell you right up front, I believe that David's sin was rape, okay, and here's why.

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Rape is defined by forcefully taking sexual intercourse from someone either by force, coercion, or use of authority over them.

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You tell me, does David fall in any of those three categories? Okay, understand, Scripture's not explicit of how that took place, but did not David use his authority to bring Bathsheba to him? Okay, if y'all disagree with me, I'm fine with that, just don't throw a chair at me, okay? Now, when we get into chapter 13, you're going to see forceful rape.

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That's why I say that these chapters work as a unit, because 11 through 13 deal with – I'm on the crack again – sexual sin, and I would say it's rape, but out of that you have two types, and then both of these lead to the murder of someone and two types.

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Parallels are crazy when we go through it.

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David murders someone to cover up the sin.

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Absalom murders someone.

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What he sees is just indignation, and both of them are wrong.

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So let's just walk through it, and we'll see how far we get, and y'all stop me along the way if you have questions, outbursts of anger, or letters to the editor.

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Then it happened in the spring at the time when the kings go out to battle that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all of Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah, but David stayed back at Jerusalem.

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I made mention of this last week, there's much written by many men and preached many times that David's sin was because he wasn't where he was supposed to be.

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Okay, if you go even back to chapter 10, when they besieged and went against the Arameans and the Syrians, did David lead that campaign? Do y'all remember last week who was here? David didn't lead that campaign.

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Who led the campaign? Joab.

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Right as he was about to overthrow the city, who comes? David comes, and actually, and we're going to read in chapter 12, the same thing happens.

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So this is a description of the time in which David would have normally have gone out.

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Was David's sin not going to battle? Would anybody say that David sinned by not going to battle? Did he have the authority to stay home or not stay home? He did.

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So it says that it would have been in the spring.

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So we know that from chapter 10, when they were going against Ammon, actually right here, they besieged this city.

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When would they normally besiege a city? If they make war on the city in the springtime, when would they besiege the city? At the time that they couldn't have chariots and horses, that would have been in the winter, the fall, the rain or snowy season, okay? So that's why the spring, when the kings go out to battle, why do they go to battle? Because, dude, there's no snow, there's no muddy land, and they can get into the city.

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So this city was being besieged when David went back to Jerusalem.

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And it says that at the end there, where it says they had destroyed the sons and besieged the city.

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David was at Jerusalem.

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In verse 2, it says, and when the evening came, David arose from his bed and he walked around on the roof of the king's house.

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What was David doing? Getting up off his bed in the afternoon.

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What was known practice in Middle Eastern culture during the day, when at the heat of the day, what did people basically do? They would take a siesta, yeah.

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And I mean, if you can go all the way from here, you can go all the way in the time of Paul's teaching.

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If you remember, they had rented a hall for Paul to preach in the middle of the day.

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People weren't out till in the field in the heat of the day in the Middle East, maybe 130 degrees, 120 degrees out on the sand or in the field.

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So they would use that time.

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So this was not uncommon either for what David was doing, to get up from his couch or get up off of his bed, to get up on his roof and to walk around.

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But there is something that happens that takes place that we have no record in history.

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Will you raise your hand? Fixing to throw something at me? Okay.

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That takes place that is never recorded in the Bible either.

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So as he gets up, he's walking on the roof.

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He saw a woman bathing and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

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David saw a woman taking a bath.

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And this is, there is, I don't think there's anybody on this planet that will disagree with what I'm fixing to say.

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It is without question that the male human being is aroused and excited and emotions set aflame by the female body.

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And by design, understand that, God has made it that way by design.

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But it's for that man's wife.

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David's on the roof.

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He sees another man's wife naked, taking a bath.

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What should David have done? I should get back in.

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Send a messenger to tell her to cover up.

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Take a shower.

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Yeah, go get on your bed.

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Go back to the couch.

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All right.

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So, what he did see, he had the responsibility to go, that woman's not my wife, therefore she does not belong to me.

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Look, God's made women beauty for their husbands.

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That is why.

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I remember my oldest son asking me, Dad, why does God make women so pretty? I said, for their husband.

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That's why.

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Until then, you keep your eyes and hands off of them.

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So that is why.

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But it says that, so David sent and inquired about the woman.

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Here's what's absolutely mind-boggling to me about this.

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At this point time in history, he was a polygamist.

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He had concubines.

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We don't even know how many concubines he had, okay? So when I say this, this is not to be perverted in any way, shape, form, or fashion.

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Let's just listen to the facts.

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He could have had any sexual desire from any shape, size, or color of woman that was in his harem.

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You understand that.

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He had everything at his disposal that would have been legally and culturally by the Mosaic Law okay.

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And what does he do? He inquires of a woman that's not his.

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And I want you to look at what he does, and this is why I see this with David.

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It says that, one, he sent a messenger.

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It says, is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? Now one, who is Eliam? We don't know.

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Or at least right not here.

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But if you go to David's valiant men, Eliam was one of his valiant men, and I want you to understand, this plays huge when we get to the conspiracy of Absalom.

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Eliam's granddad, I mean Eliam's dad, which would have been Bathsheba's granddad, was Ahithophel, the one that gives counsel to have David overthrown.

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And he winds up hanging himself and all of that.

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So once we understand that, when we get to Ahithophel, you're going to see why Ahithophel was setting up David to most likely be killed because, hey man, this guy had sinned against his family.

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So Eliam was one of David's valiant men, and so was Uriah.

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And here it is.

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Three things that David does to her.

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He sins for her.

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He took her.

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Took.

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You see that is? He's taking.

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He's taking.

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And? What does take mean? If I come over here, and I take his cup, is that not a forceful act? Okay.

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Now, did she have the ability to say, I'm not going? She did.

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Well, I mean.

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The other alternative.

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She could say.

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But not against him.

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Correct.

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Right.

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Do I believe that Bathsheba knew what was fixing to take place? No way.

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No way.

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I want to be very clear.

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Bathsheba is not at fault in any of this.

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You look all through scripture.

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I've heard men say, had she not been bathing, this would not have happened.

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Okay, well, that's not her fault.

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It wasn't uncommon for a womp.

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Look, they didn't take a bath in the street outside the front of the house.

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They got up top so nobody could see.

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Who was the highest house on the block? David's.

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Okay, so that was common.

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Bathsheba's in no way, shape, form, or fashion at fault.

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And any time this sin is laid at someone's feet, whose feet is it laid at? David's.

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David's.

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Did David sin against Bathsheba? Absolutely.

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All right, let's name some of the sins.

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It takes her purity here.

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He makes her an adulteress.

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What else? Basically, kidnap.

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That's exactly what I would say.

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That's what I would say.

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When it says took, I would say he used force.

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Imagine knocking on the door and going, hey, the king wants you, and he wants you to look good and smell good.

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I mean, in the mind, I know it doesn't say that, but in the mind, she had to be going, and this is odd.

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This is odd.

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So it says that he sinned, he took, and he lay.

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All forceful acts.

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Now, the word, it doesn't say had sex, but what would we say lay means? Exiled.

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All right, all right.

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So he laid with her, and then when she had been purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

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Now, this is where this seems a little weird.

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All right, here it is.

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They have engaged in a sexual act that's a violation of Mosaic law, and had, by the Mosaic legislation, they both should have been put to death, okay? Or David sure have, if this was how I see it, rape, and as we get to the end of chapter 12, you'll see that God says, hey, you won't die now.

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So she says she uncleaned herself from her uncleanness.

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Does anybody remember what the Mosaic law said about when a man and a woman sleep together that they're what their uncleanness is? They're unclean till the night.

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Because of the fluids, of sexual fluids, seminal fluids, under the Mosaic legislation, if any of those are emitted, the man and the woman are impure till sundown.

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That's how I understand that.

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Now, there are some men and commentators that say, hey, what it's saying is that this had to do with her being unclean from her menstrual cycle.

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Does it say that in your footnote? Does anybody have that in their footnote? How did you, when you did that, Bert, what is your conclusion on her uncleanness? I would say yes, it was the Mosaic prop, basically from the, it was obvious that.

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Okay, all right, so I don't, and then some guys say, well, no, what she did is she made a sacrifice for her adultery.

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That I have no idea how they came to that conclusion.

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But what is odd is that, hey, how did no one else know what was going on in David's palace? I mean, David calls this chick up there and then he says, hey, I need everybody out.

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That's what's going to happen in this chapter when this takes place.

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Ammon calls for Tamar, gets everybody in there.

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They're having basically food and beverages.

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And he asked for all the servants to leave but her.

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And then he takes advantage of Tamar.

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Same thing takes place as far as how people coming in, we want to be left alone.

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And then the sexual sin takes place.

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And of course, the old thing, if I didn't see nothing, I don't know nothing.

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Yeah, and who, and just in the same way Bathsheba is being coerced by the authority of the king, who's going to say anything? Now, I will give whoever the person was up in that says, hey, this is, does this not Bathsheba's, the wife of Uriah? I mean, I'll say, hey, man, that guy was pretty gutsy.

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But when David said, go get him, you know what he should have done? He should have said, hold up, dude.

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And that's Uriah, that guy is out in the field fighting to overthrow a city for your name and for the sake of our God.

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But that's not what he did.

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And it is interesting when you think about Uriah being one of his valued men.

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He was obviously close with David.

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Well, we all agree with that.

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Okay, he's out to battle.

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What does, hey, Uriah entrusted Bathsheba, has Uriah not entrusted Bathsheba into the care, basically custody and control of the king of David? Did David not fail to protect her? Did he not? Of course he didn't protect her.

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I mean, he took advantage of her.

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And as Uriah, he is, he's like, all right, I know my wife's going to be okay while I'm out in the field.

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We don't know how long, they could have been out here for months, most likely months.

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And he was entrusting that David would take care of her, and he did not.

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It says the woman conceived, and then she sent and told David and said, I am pregnant.

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Now, we have a time frame, which we don't know from verse 2 to the end of verse 5.

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We don't know how long that was.

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It was obviously long enough for however they knew.

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Ma'am? Yeah, at least long enough for her to know that, oh, wow, I'm pregnant.

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Okay.

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Hey, when David goes to trying to cover this thing up, just in my mind, just sheer time frame, it ain't going to work.

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Even if he can really get Uriah to sleep with her, man, this baby is going to be six months early, you know, even if that works.

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So she says she's pregnant, and here comes the scheme of David.

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Then David sent to Joab saying, send me Uriah the Hittite.

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All right.

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I want you all to go through and count how many, you don't have to do it right now, but tonight or this afternoon, how many times it says Uriah? Uriah, Uriah, Uriah.

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It's very clearly who he's sinning against.

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It's Uriah, it's Uriah, it's Uriah.

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In my translation, I counted 13 times from chapter 11, verse 2 to the end of this, 13 times he mentions Uriah, Uriah, Uriah.

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So he calls Uriah the Hittite.

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What is a Hittite? Hittite actually was a pagan.

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If you go back to the Abrahamic promise, when he says, I'm going to give you the land in chapter 12, you're going to have the land of all the Hittites.

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Hittites is one of them.

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So this is showing that Uriah actually was a proselyte.

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He was actually one that had been converted.

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You gave me the shifty eye.

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It was one, he was a guy that had been converted.

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And I would even say he's even been converted to the point of circumcision.

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And the reason why I would say that is because he marries Bathsheba.

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Therefore, he's put himself under all the Mosaic legislation.

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And then as we go through this, you see his desire to be faithful to God because of the ark.

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He even speaks of, hey, man, the ark's here.

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How am I going to go do this when the ark is here? So Uriah had at one time been a pagan and has now been converted.

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So he sends to Joab.

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So Joab sent Uriah to David.

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In verse 7, it says, and when Uriah came to David, he asked concerning the welfare of Job and the people of the state of the war.

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Interesting that he asked Uriah what's going on.

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Man, they usually send a runner.

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And you're going to see that's what Joab does when he sends back.

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They send a runner.

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They don't send a valiant man.

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This guy was most likely a general.

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They don't send those guys back.

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My mind, I'm thinking Uriah has got to be going.

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And this is weird.

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He's asking me about Joab.

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So he sends, David asked him concerning how the war is going.

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In verse 8, then David said to Uriah, now here's where it starts.

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I want you to go down to your home and wash your feet.

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He didn't want him to go wash his feet.

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He wanted him to go home and sleep with his wife.

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Now, whether that is a euphemism for, hey, go home and take your clothes off, or whether that was the normal practice of, you know, when a person comes into the home, they've been gone.

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First thing they do for cleanliness was to wash their feet.

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But we know what David means.

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He says, go wash your feet.

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And Uriah went out of the king's house and a present from the king was sent out after him.

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Once again, Uriah has got to be going, man, this is weird.

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He's telling me to go home, wash my feet.

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He's walking down the street.

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He's got to hear the galloping of either mules or something behind him with a present.

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Well, probably is on the, what's the present probably? I don't, I mean, we don't know.

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Champagne, candles.

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We don't know, but it's obviously something to, for him to, yeah, to suave his wife.

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So it says in verse eight, so, but Uriah slept at the door of the king's house and all the servants of his Lord.

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And he did not go down to his house.

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Class act.

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Yep.

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That guy right there, that, that is a valiant man.

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He knows they're at war.

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He said, and he's going to say why.

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And David's even confused, which when David explains his reasoning, I agree with David's reasoning, dude, why didn't you go home? You know, he, he's saying, look, you slept outside and you didn't go home.

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He said in verse 10, then when they told David that Uriah did not go home, David said to Uriah, and I can't help but think, you know, we don't have tone here, but David being frustrated, dude, why didn't you go home? One, didn't I tell you to go home? Why didn't you go home to your house? And Uriah said this, the ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters and my Lord Joab and the servants are in the open field.

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Then how shall I then go to the house to eat and drink and to lay with my wife? That is a man of good character.

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I ain't gonna lie to you.

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If I've been out in the field, been away from civil for that long, buddy, I'm going to the house.

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I'm going to the house.

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If I've been gone from civil working out of town for a week, I'm going home.

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Now this guy's saying it makes no difference.

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My, his personal affections have been laid aside.

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One, for the nation, Israel, for the king, and ultimately for the ark, meaning the presence of God.

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He says, why do you want me to go lay down with my wife and eat and drink? And listen to who he swears by, by your life and by your soul, I will not do it.

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Okay, so now David's in a conundrum.

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He's already told me under any circumstances, I'm not going home.

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I'm not going to go sleep with my wife and enjoy conjugal visits with my wife.

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All these other men around there abstaining by basically because of war.

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He says, I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it.

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My men can't do it.

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So David goes to plan B in verse 12.

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Then David said to Uriah, stay here today also.

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And tomorrow I will let you go.

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So Uriah remained in Jerusalem the next day.

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And David called to him and he ate and drank before him.

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And he made him drunk.

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Why do you think he made, why do you think he made him drunk? Yeah, he's like, man, we'll get this guy loosened up a little bit.

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Get him liquored up, man, you know, lower his inhibitions a little bit.

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He'll go home to his wife.

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And it said he made him drunk and he made him drink.

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And in the evening, he went out to lie on his bed with his Lord's servants.

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And once again, the man of good character was not swayed by being drunk.

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He never lost his faculties to remember his oath that I swear on your life and my soul that I will not do this.

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And he did not go home.

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What does that man, what a man of character.

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Is Uriah not a man of uprightness? I mean, what? I don't know a man that would have done that.

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I don't.

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I don't know any man that would have done that.

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Now, part of me, as we're reading this, because we know the whole story.

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Is Uriah caught on? He knows something's up.

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I don't know if he knows exactly what it is.

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I can't.

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Good.

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I wonder, like, he doesn't go home.

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But like, does she even know he's back in town? I'm sure.

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Like, I mean, that had to be super awkward.

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Like, what, you know, is she going to tell him? Well, I'm sure David said, hey, I'm calling him back.

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You better put the shiggy diggy on him.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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This is going to help cover up.

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There's no doubt.

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It doesn't say that.

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So I want you to understand.

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But there's no doubt in my mind that that was that she was not aware that he was coming back.

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Good.

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Matthew Henry makes a note about this.

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This was not Uriah Providence at work to bring David to repentance and uphold justice in Israel.

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Oh, most definitely.

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It's just a shame it cost Uriah his life.

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That that's what that's the terrible thing.

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It's amazing that David could look at Uriah, you know, talk to Uriah, look at Uriah, Uriah Trump.

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I mean, like, that just had to eat David up for the rest of his life.

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Like, you know, he like talking to this dude.

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And the next day, he sent them out to go.

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And not that but being one of his closest inner circle.

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Right.

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Like, man, you have like a ton of character.

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No, there's no doubt.

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No doubt.

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If it was if you want the man staying in your house, being your best friend, would you want Joab or do you want Uriah? I want Uriah.

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Now, if you want somebody to guard a patrol outside your house so that nobody enters to take care of your family while you're away, I want Joab out there.

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But the man I want in the house would have been Uriah because that was a man of good character.

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Yeah, she would have had to.

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I mean, they're next door neighbors, right? Pretty much.

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He could see from.

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I mean, yeah, he didn't pull out the periscope.

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Yeah, no, it was close enough.

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That's why I say that.

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I believe that Uriah, you know, with her being close to to the palace was like, dude, he had his his his high men family close there.

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Man, if somebody would have came into the city, do you not think that David was going to pick up a sword and fight? David wasn't going to run to the top and let them fight.

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David was going to fight for his people.

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And that is another thing that just goes, man, David did not protect Bathsheba.

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He did not care about Uriah.

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And we are seeing somewhat of that spiral, that starting into ruin.

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And understand that this is the beginning of ruins, David's reign of going into ruin.

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Now, does he still reign and subdue his enemies? But did he is never the same.

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Never the same.

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Yeah.

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I mean, you think of the two greatest deliverers that we hear in in scripture, one would be Samson, one would be David, both of their lives ruined by women and by their own choice to do so.

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OK, it wasn't the woman's fault.

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It's like Samson.

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That was his fault.

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He was chasing hookers and doing all that.

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And he wound up having his eyes plucked out because of it.

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That was his own fault.

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Then this situation, too, this is David's own doing.

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And David, instead of immediately repenting and doing the harder thing, which would have been saying, Uriah, I took your wife, would be just the better thing would have been to pull him into the palace, have everybody leave.

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Hey, man, this is what has taken place.

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But in a desire to continue in his pride, he said, I'll fix it.

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I'll be the fixer.

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And we get to chapter 12.

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Then David, I'm sorry, chapter 11, verse 14.

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Now, in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and he sent it by the hand of Uriah and he had written in the letter this place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from it.

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I can imagine Joab reading this part right here.

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One, what are they doing at the city? Right now, they're sieging it.

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So all they're doing is have basically wrapped around the city.

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They're cutting off any food, any water.

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And we're going to see here shortly in the next chapter that when he said the water's finally cut off and they've gained all control of it.

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So it's time to take the city.

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Okay.

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What was stupid to do? Assault.

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You don't think and Joab's and it's going to be Joab's going to say so basically, basically says that's stupid.

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So you're wanting us to assault the city when it's not time.

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But David actually tells him exactly where he wants to place him.

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He says, place Uriah in the front of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him so that he may be struck down and die.

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Once again, I've got to, I can't help but think that Joab doesn't know what's going on.

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But what's Joab going to say? But what's Joab going to say? He's a murdering himself.

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You know, what's he going to say? Well, you know what you're doing? David's wrong.

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Well, hang on a second.

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He just killed an innocent man because he killed his brother during a time of war.

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What's he going to do? David should have had him executed and he didn't.

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If he doesn't carry this out, could David not have Joab executed? I bet it did.

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I bet it was right here.

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Yeah.

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He's like, hey man, let me.

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Yeah, I agree.

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I agree.

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So it was, it was as Joab kept watch on the city that he put Uriah at the place where he knew that the valiant men were and the men of the city went out and they fought against Joab and some of the people among David's servants fell and Uriah the Hittite also died.

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Do you also see in this that not only is David responsible for the murder of Uriah, we don't know how many other men died.

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I'm sorry.

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Go ahead.

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Other men got killed.

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Other men got killed.

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Once again, so David's responsible not only for Uriah's murder, but for those men's murders too.

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So now you have, we don't know how many women widowed and now fatherless because of David's infraction, sin.

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This letter actually arouses your anger.

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It does.

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Like I said, it should bother you, especially, man, you don't expect this out of David.

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You know, this is the man of God's choosing.

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This is God's man to lead and guide and shepherd his people.

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The great deliverer.

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I mean, even he even said it, you will be the one to shepherd my people.

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Is that shepherding God's people? Not at all.

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But that should point us forward to the great shepherd who will.

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David is a failure.

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He's taking up Saul's mantle of taking now.

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Yeah, doing what he wants.

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Hey, we do see at times where David consulted when he didn't know what to do.

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He consulted God.

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You know what he should have done? He should.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Let me call the prophet and see what he says.

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Hey, check it out.

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I want to sleep with Uriah's wife.

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What's your thoughts? Yeah.

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So he, he kills Uriah.

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He kills them through the use of the sword of the Ammonites.

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And then Joab sent, it says in verse 18, Joab sent reported to David all the events of the war.

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Okay, here it is.

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Joab sends someone with all events of the war.

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What did David just ask Uriah earlier in the chapter? What's going on in the war? If I can't help but think if Uriah, the standard practice was not send the valiant men home.

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Why didn't he ask for one of the runners or one of the heralders to come? So the one of the heralders goes, he tells, and Joab sent the report to David and all the events of the war.

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19, he charged the messenger, you say this.

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When you, he charged that when you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king, and it happens that the king's wrath arises, and he says to you, why did you go near to the city to fight? Once again, what he asked Joab to do tactically was wrong, and Joab knew it.

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Why do we know that? Because he said, he's going to say, why did you go near to the wall? The people should have been starved out before you go near to the wall.

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And he says, when you have finished telling in those events, I'm sorry.

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Why did you not go, did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? And then he goes back to a, we all remember when we went through judges, he goes back to a time of the judges, and he says, do you not remember back in judges chapter nine? He didn't say chapter nine, but he says, do you not remember back in the time of the judges when Abimelech, a woman threw an upper millstone from the wall, and he died at Thebes? Why did you go near to the wall? Then you shall say, your servant Uriah is dead also.

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Now, Abimelech was the son of Jeroboam, or what? Did anybody say anything? Is anybody who, have anything other than the crazy name there? What about, what does your say? Bert? Gideon.

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It was Gideon's son.

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I mean, Gideon was Jeroboam.

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Okay, what is your, everybody says that crazy name? Really? I've thought out.

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Gideon, see, she's got the right Bible.

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Yeah, so it was Gideon.

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Interesting, you have to remember, why did the millstone get dropped? Well, because it was too close to the wall, but why did Gideon's son, Abimelech, get the millstone dropped around his neck? Do you remember what he did in judges chapter nine? The 70 sons of Gideon, he lined them up, he killed them on one stone.

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He says, do you not remember what happened to Abimelech? I'm, in my mind, okay, I could be wrong.

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I think Joab's pointing to David saying, hey man, this guy had a millstone dropped on his neck for killing 70 innocent people.

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You sent them out, and now you have killed these innocent people.

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Your demise is coming as well.

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That's how, it's almost parable, almost like saying a parable, okay? And not only was his, how was Abimelech's demise overthrown? It was by a woman.

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How was David's demise overthrown? By a woman, by his desire for a woman.

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Once again, what you're saying, it's not that she was fault.

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I'm just saying his desire for her is his demise.

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His demise is because he wants something that didn't belong to him.

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He was covetous, he was adulterous, and now this has caused him to murder.

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Hey, you can even go to the New Testament, and it says, you lie, you cheat, and you murder because of your covetous heart.

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David murdered because he coveted Bathsheba.

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And I believe here that he is giving this saying, look, well, it was stupid to go near the wall because this man's demise was because he killed 70 innocent people.

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And it even says that, if you go back to Judges, that that millstone was dropped around on his head as retribution from God for killing 70 innocent people.

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I do believe that that's what Joab is saying.

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Look, man, your demise is gonna be the same, and we need to stop.

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So we'll pick up in verse 22 next week.

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Mr.

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Berry, you'll pray us? Heavenly Father, I thank you this time that we could study your word, and even the difficult parts of the part where we just ask that you would receive the instruction, we would receive the examples, so we would be prudent, we would learn from it, we would apply it to our lives, that we would not make these same mistakes again, but live our lives to your glory.

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I ask that you would bless us in worship today, that you would ask that you would just open your word to us as Brother Keith preaches it, giving the words that you know we need to hear, and that you would just bless our time in fellowship today, as brothers and sisters in Christ, in Jesus' name, amen.