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2 Samuel 11: 1 -5 (NKJV) 11 It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 11: 1 -5 (NKJV) 2 Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold.

2 Samuel 11: 1 -5 (NKJV) 3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? ”

2 Samuel 11: 1 -5 (NKJV) 4 Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. 5 And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child. ”

Bathsheba • Name: Bathsheba “daughter of the oath” • Status: Married to Uriah the Hittite • Spouse: Uriah – “Yahweh is my light” David’s Mighty Men (2 Sam 23: 39) 39 and Uriah the Hittite: thirtyseven in all.

Bathsheba Lineage: Father: Eliam / Ammiel “God is my kinsman” 1 Chronicles 3: 5 5 And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon—four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel.

Bathsheba Lineage: Father: Eliam / Ammiel David’s Mighty Men (2 Sam 23: 34) 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

Bathsheba Lineage: Grandfather: Ahithophel David’s Chief Counselor (2 Samuel 16: 23) 23 Now the advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one had inquired at the oracle of God. So was all the advice of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

An Adulteress? 2 Samuel 11: 4 NKJV 4 Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. 2 Samuel 11: 4 NIV 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness. ) Then she went back home.

An Adulteress?

An Adulteress?

An Adulteress?

An Adulteress?

1 Samuel 8: 10 -18 • 10 So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked him for a king. 11 And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots.

1 Samuel 8: 10 -18 • 12 He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

1 Samuel 8: 10 -18 • 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. 14 And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants.

1 Samuel 8: 10 -18 • 16 And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest [a]young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants.

1 Samuel 8: 10 -18 • 18 And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day. ”

The Cover-Up 2 Samuel 11: 6 -13 NKJV 6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite. ” And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered. 8 And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet. ” So Uriah departed from the king’s house, and a gift of food from the king followed

The Cover-Up 2 Samuel 11: 6 -13 NKJV 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10 So when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house, ” David said to Uriah, “Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house? ”

The Cover-Up 2 Samuel 11: 6 -13 NKJV 11 And Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing. ”

The Cover-Up 2 Samuel 11: 6 -13 NKJV 12 Then David said to Uriah, “Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart. ” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And 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.

The Murder 2 Samuel 11: 14 -17 NKJV 14 In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die. ”

The Murder 2 Samuel 11: 6 -25 NKJV 16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

The Mourning 2 Samuel 11: 26 NKJV 26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2 Samuel 11: 27 NKJV 27 And when her 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.

2 Samuel 11: 27 NKJV 27 And when her 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.

A Skeleton in the Closet When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. {Psalm 32: 3 NLT}

The Parable 2 Samuel 12: 1 -4 NKJV Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: “There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds.

The Parable 2 Samuel 12: 1 -4 NKJV 3 But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.

The Parable 2 Samuel 12: 1 -4 NKJV 4 And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him. ”

The Parable 2 Samuel 12: 5 -6 NKJV 5 So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! 6 And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity. ”

The Big Reveal 2 Samuel 12: 7 NKJV 7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!

The Big Reveal 2 Samuel 12: 7 -12 NKJV Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!

The Big Reveal 2 Samuel 12: 7 -12 NKJV 9 Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.

The Big Reveal 2 Samuel 12: 7 -12 NKJV 10 Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. ’

The Big Reveal 2 Samuel 12: 7 -12 NKJV 11 Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun. ’ ”

The Confession • 2 Samuel 12: 13 NKJV • 13 So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD. ”

The Confession For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night. Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just. {Psalms 51: 3 -4 NLT}

The Confession Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. Do not banish me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. {Psalm 51: 10 -12 NLT}

The Confession People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy. {Proverbs 28: 13 NLT}

The Confession 2 Samuel 12: 13 NKJV 13 So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD. ” • And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

The Confession 2 Samuel 12: 13 NKJV 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die. ” 15 Then Nathan departed to his house.

Renewed 2 Samuel 12: 24 -25 NKJV 24 Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the LORD loved him, 25 and He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet: So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

Renewed 2 Samuel 12: 24 -25 NLT 24 Then David comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and slept with her. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and David named him Solomon. The LORD loved the child 25 and sent word through Nathan the prophet that they should name him Jedidiah (which means “beloved of the LORD”), as the LORD had commanded.

Renewed

Redeemed 2 Samuel 12: 24 -25 NIV 1 This is the genealogy[a] of Jesus the Messiah[b] the son of David, the son of Abraham: 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, • Isaac the father of Jacob, • Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

Redeemed 2 Samuel 12: 24 -25 NIV • 3 Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, • Perez the father of Hezron, • Hezron the father of Ram, • 4 Ram the father of Amminadab, • Amminadab the father of Nahshon, • Nahshon the father of Salmon,

Redeemed 2 Samuel 12: 24 -25 NIV • 5 Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, • Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, • Obed the father of Jesse, • 6 and Jesse the father of King David. • David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,

Redeemed Luke 3: 23 -25 NIV • 23 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, • the son of Heli, 24 the son of Matthat, • the son of Levi, the son of Melki, • the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, • 25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, • the son of Nahum, the son of Esli,

Redeemed Luke 3: 29 -31 NIV 29 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, 30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, 31 the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David

Redeemed 2 Samuel 5: 14 (NKJV) • 14 Now these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: [a]Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

Redeemed Proverbs 31 (NIV) 1 The sayings of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him. 2 Listen, my son! Listen, son of my womb! Listen, my son, the answer to my prayers!

Redeemed Proverbs 31 (NIV) Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character 10 A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. 11 Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. 12 She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.

Conclusion § Don’t let your failure be the summary statement of your life § Continue to trust in God despite the tragedies in your life; God is sovereign he can turn your tragedies into triumphs § You don’t have to be perfect; you just have to avail of the perfect grace of God