The king was a devout man,
A man of immense faith.
He fought the bear and the lion
when he was young with his bare hands.
The giant Goliath he
killed with just a pebble stone.
A great and mighty warrior
David had a reputation to be
after god’s own heart.
He was beloved to his people
and he was known to be a true child of God.
But one day, he let his guard
down, when he causally looked from his roof top.
He spotted an extremely
beautiful woman, bathing herself in the sun.
He found out, she was the wife
of one of his soldiers, who was fighting in the battle which was going in.
He had her sent for, and did
the unthinkable, when he went and slept with her.
She returned to her house, and
they went back to their lives, like it was before.
Everything went as planned,
till the woman sent him a message, she was with child.
Panic set in, new plans had to
be made.
He sent for the husband Uriah,
and asked him to spend some nights at home.
To the king’s dismay, he
refused to sleep in his own bed, but rested with the palace guards.
The king sent him back to
the battle ground, with a letter in his hand.
He asked his chief to put him
in the battle front and make sure he would die.
Sure enough Uriah died and the
king married his wife.
Everything went on as normal,
till god sent the prophet Nathan, to confront the king of his wrong.
The king wept, and repented
.God had forgiven him. The prophet to him said.
But there was a price; the king
had to pay for the cruelty he had showed for killing a man for his own selfish
desires and destroying his home.
The king will lose the child
conceived out of wedlock and turmoil within his own family will not leave
him till the day the king dies.
Dearly beloved live in the fear
of God.
And live your life righteous
before him always.
2 Samuel 12:7-11 CJB
7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man.
“Here is what Adonai, the God of Isra’el says: ‘I anointed you king over Isra’el. I
rescued you from the power of Sha’ul. 8 I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives to embrace.
I gave you the house of Isra’el and the house of Y’hudah. And if that had been
too little, I would have added to you a lot more.
9 “‘So why have you shown such contempt for the word of Adonai and
done what I see as evil? You murdered Uriyah the Hitti with the sword and taken
his wife as your own wife; you put him to death with the sword of the people of
‘Amon. 10 Now
therefore, the sword will never leave your house — because you have shown
contempt for me and taken the wife of Uriyah the Hitti as your own wife.’ 11 Here is what Adonai says: ‘I will generate evil against you out of your own
household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to your
neighbor; he will go to bed with your wives, and everyone will know about it. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this before all Isra’el in
broad daylight.’”
