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Uriah’s Death Arranged
II Samuel 11:18–27
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When David’s scheme to have Uriah spend time with his wife failed he ordered Joab to send him to the front lines where he would be killed. The messenger reported to David the details of the battle (vv. 18-21). The Ammonites had pushed the Israelites back from the city. Joab, however, had been able to rally his forces and push the Ammonites back to the gates of their capital. There the Ammonite archers were able to pick off many Israelites including Uriah.
Hearing the news of Uriah’s death, David realized that his royal orders led to the irresponsible conduct of Joab in ordering the men so close to the walls. He sent word back to his general urging that he not be distraught over the losses or of his complicity in the death of Uriah. In a rather calloused comment the king said “the sword devours one as well as another.” It seems that David’s response to Uriah’s death was insensitive (vv. 22-25). Deliberate, repeated sinning had dulled David’s sensitivity to God’s laws and others rights. “
Bathsheba went through the motions of mourning for her dead husband. Whether this mourning was sincere or just part of the cover-up plot is not clear. In any case, following this time of mourning (usually seven days), David married Bathsheba. Soon after she brought forth the child which had been conceived in the adulterous union. How many, if any, suspected what had taken place is not indicated. David’s actions, however, were evil in the sight of God (vv. 26-27). The thing that David had done displeased the Lord,” and David did not get by with his sin. Whether it was known in Jerusalem or not, David’s secret sin and our “Secret sin on earth is open scandal in heaven.” God knows all about what we do.
Application
David’s sin dulled his sensitivity to God’s laws. It is my desire to always be sensitive to God’s Word and doing what pleases Him
II Samuel 11:18-27 (English Standard Version)
Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting. And he instructed the messenger, "When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king, then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, 'Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'" So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. The messenger said to David, "The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." David said to the messenger, "Thus shall you say to Joab, 'Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.' And encourage him." When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband. 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.
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