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In Second Samuel, chapter fifteen, verse fourteen, David was forced to flee from his son, who sought to kill him and gain the throne. David left Jerusalem and wept as he went in verse thirty. However, David likely remembered his sin and recognized that this was part of God’s retribution, as in chapter twelve, verses […]

In First Samuel, chapter fifteen, verse six, Absolam conspires for four years to steal the throne from his father, and the people are increasingly against David. Absolam’s success reveals that David had lost much of the people’s respect because of his sin and consequent failure to manage his own house. His ability to lead, once

In Second Samuel, chapter thirteen, verse thirty-six, after Absolam killed Amnon, David was grief-stricken. The agony of David as a result of God’s chastisement has no parallel in Biblical history. God permits sin and Satan to inflict great suffering upon him. Though David received forgiveness from God and did not suffer eternal punishment for his

In Second Samuel, chapter thirteen, verse twenty-eight, God permitted Absolam’s vengeance to punish Amnon’s crime against Tamar. Absolam summons his men to kill Amnon before the banquet starts. The plan arrangement was to render the attack successful. Though Tamar’s wrong was the mainspring of Absalom’s conduct, neither he nor his men would forget that Amnon

In Second Samuel, chapter thirteen, verse twenty-one, David was angry for the raping of his daughter by his firstborn son, Amnon, as stated in First Chronicles three, verse one. Yet, he could not bring himself to rebuke and punish Amnon as he should have in Leviticus twenty, verse seventeen. The sexual immorality of David with

In Second Samuel, chapter thirteen, verse one, is the first series of narratives for chapters thirteen to twenty-two are mainly accounts of the fulfillment of God’s purpose for disciplining David for the sin with Bathsheba. Chapter Thirteen records the first result of David’s sin of lust, adultery, and murder in Galatians Six, verse seven. Incest

In Second Samuel, chapter twelve, verse twenty-four, did David benefit from his sins of lust and murder? He engineered the death of Bathsheba’s husband and then possessed the woman he desired. Perhaps the severity of God’s punishment of David for the next twenty-five years is partially no legal or moral right to take and keep

In Second Samuel, chapter twelve, verse fifteen, David admits his sin to Nathan. Shortly after, David repents before God and accepts his judgment. Nathan, in obedience, did his part to serve God by allowing the Lord to manifest through him to help David. After all, the purpose of God’s will is that to be accomplished

In Second Samuel, chapter twelve, verse thirteen, David’s sin was forgiven by God in that the death penalty and eternal punishment are remitted, as in First John three, stanza fifteen. He received restoration to salvation and fellowship with God as in Psalms fifty-one. Despite this, the blemish of David’s reputation was forever, and the effects

In Second Samuel, chapter twelve, verses eleven through twelve, David’s dreadful punishment, prophesied by Nathan, was not merely the natural consequences of his sin, nor was God passively authorizing things to happen to David. However, his punishment was the result of God’s direct actions. Three times God used a phrase of intention: Behold, I will