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Life Lessons in the Story of David & Bathsheba Life Lessons in the Story of David & Bathsheba Synopsis In this study guide on Second Samuel, Chapters 11-12 (NKJV), we will walk through chapters eleven and twelve, examining the story as it is found in the Bible and analyzing how this applies to our daily lives. Topic/Objective Bible Verse (NKJV) Excerpts Context Analysis/Activities/Discussion The Start of Bad 2 Samuel 11:1 In the beginning of this chapter, This story is a story about decisions. The first verse in Decisions It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to we find out that David makes a chapter 11 indicates that King David has made a battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; choice to stay behind while his choice, contrary to what is usually expected of a King. and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But men go to war in the spring, the No explanation is given other than the fact that David David remained at Jerusalem. time in which kings go off to made the choice. war. We will learn throughout this lesson about the impact decisions have on the direction of our lives. Each decision is a part of a domino effect that we set in motion by the choices we make. Indulging in Sin 2 Samuel 11:2-4 David sees Bathsheba bathing The timelines for this story are being set up in the early 2 Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and on the rooftop, and finds out she part of the story to lay the foundation for what is to walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a is the wife of Uriah. He sends come later. woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. 3 So for her. She has also just be David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this cleansed of her impurities, in Discussion Question: Why would David send for not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 other words, her menstrual cycle Bathsheba even though he knows she is married, and he Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he has passed. already has several wives? lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. The Results of 2 Samuel 11:5 Bathsheba tells David she is Please note the details regarding her cycle in verse Actions/Choices And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am pregnant. four. The Bible is deliberate in word choice - when with child.” Bathsheba and David sin and conceive, there is no question of paternity. David must decide how to handle this. Discussion Question: What decisions have we made that have put us in the predicament of having to make tough choices. www.lovesanaction.com ©2015 Love’s an Action. This work may be reproduced and redistributed, in whole, without alteration and without prior written permission, for educational and other [email protected] noncommercial purposes. Note: Biblical references are taken from the New King James Version of the Bible. @lovesanaction The Choice to Not 2 Samuel 11:6-13 David has Joab send for Uriah. Two items to note about this situation: Repent 6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And After conversation, David tells 1. David tries to use sin to cover up his previous Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked Uriah to “Go down to your sin. He attempts to get Uriah drunk and trick how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war house and wash your feet” him into going to his wife’s house. This is the prospered. 8 And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and however Uriah slept at the king’s overwhelming problem when you dig a hole wash your feet.” So Uriah departed from the king’s house, and a gift of house with the servants. This of sin, the more you dig, the more you sin. food from the king followed him. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the was due to Uriah not wanting to a. Discussion Question: Why didn’t king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his enjoy certain luxuries while his David just repent for his sin? house. 10 So when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to men are in open fields in tents. 2. Pay attention to the irony of the situation. his house,” David said to Uriah, “Did you not come from a journey? David seeing his plan didn’t David should be a man of God and a leader Why did you not go down to your house?”11 And Uriah said to David, work, decides to get Uriah drunk to his people. Yet it is Uriah who is taking “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab the next night, however Uriah the more faithful approach and setting an and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then still refuses to go home to his example. David, seeing Uriah’s dedication go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, wife. still fails to think about his own actions. and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”12 Then David said to David has truly been blinded by sin. Uriah, “Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So a. Discussion Question: Can you Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 Now when David share a time when you were called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And blinded by sin and selfish desires? at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. Our Sins and Their 2 Samuel 11:14-25 David sends a letter to Joab, Sin destroys judgment. David makes the situation Impact on Others 14 In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and through Uriah, to place Uriah in worse for not only himself, but for Uriah as well due to sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set an intense battle zone, on the his inability to confess. In his “blindness”, David has Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he front line, so that Uriah will be Uriah carry out his own death sentence to punish him may be struck down and die.” 16 So it was, while Joab besieged the killed. David knows Uriah will for David’s own sin. 1 John 1:19 offers a better idea, city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant not open the sealed letter. He is “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will men. 17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And too loyal and noble. Joab, forgive us our sins and purify us from all some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite receiving the instructions, does unrighteousness.” David rejects God’s wisdom for his died also. 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning what David has told him to do. lack of judgment. the war, 19 and charged the messenger, saying, “When you have He confirms Uriah’s death finished telling the matters of the war to the king, 20 if it happens that through a messenger. Learning Activity: Anonymously write down a time the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you: ‘Why did you approach so someone else suffered for your sins. Have someone near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would else read it aloud to the group. shoot from the wall? 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’” 22 So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him. 23 And the messenger said to David, “Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate. 24 The archers shot from the wall at your servants; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your www.lovesanaction.com ©2015 Love’s an Action. This work may be reproduced and redistributed, in whole, without alteration and without prior written permission, for educational and other [email protected] noncommercial purposes. Note: Biblical references are taken from the New King James Version of the Bible. @lovesanaction servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”25 Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another.
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