Chapter 11 David commits adultery with Bathsheba while her husband is away fighting a battle for him. ----- Original Message ----- From: "O.Addison Gethers" <[email protected]> To: "Deaf-blind inspirational life groups" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:36 AM Subject: {dbilg} Fw: Daily Bible Reading For Wednesday April 1
> > > O. Addison Gethers > e-mail address : [email protected] or [email protected] > window live messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: > cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:40 PM > Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Wednesday April 1 > > >>2 Samuel 10-12 (The Message) >> >> 2 Samuel 10 >> 1-2 Sometime after this, the king of the Ammonites died and Hanun, his >> son, succeeded him as king. >> David said, "I'd like to show some kindness to Hanun, >> the son of Nahash-treat him as well and as kindly as his father treated >> me." So David sent Hanun >> condolences regarding his father. >> >> 2-3 But when David's servants got to the land of the Ammonites, the >> Ammonite leaders warned Hanun, >> their head delegate, "Do you for a minute suppose that >> David is honoring your father by sending you comforters? Don't you think >> it's because he wants to >> snoop around the city and size it up that David has sent >> his emissaries to you?" >> >> 4 So Hanun seized David's men, shaved off half their beards, cut off >> their >> robes halfway up their >> buttocks, and sent them packing. >> >> 5 When all this was reported to David, he sent someone to meet them, for >> they were seriously >> humiliated. The king told them, "Stay in Jericho until your >> beards grow out. Only then come back." >> >> 6 When it dawned on the Ammonites that as far as David was concerned they >> stunk to high heaven, >> they hired Aramean soldiers from Beth-Rehob and Zobah-twenty >> thousand infantry-and a thousand men from the king of Maacah, and twelve >> thousand men from Tob. >> >> 7 When David heard of this, he dispatched Joab with his strongest >> fighters >> in full force. >> >> 8-12 The Ammonites marched out and arranged themselves in battle >> formation >> at the city gate. The >> Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah >> took up a position out in the open fields. When Joab saw that he had two >> fronts to fight, before and >> behind, he took his pick of the best of Israel and >> deployed them to confront the Arameans. The rest of the army he put under >> the command of Abishai, >> his brother, and deployed them to confront the Ammonites. >> Then he said, "If the Arameans are too much for me, you help me. And if >> the Ammonites prove too much >> for you, I'll come and help you. Courage! We'll fight >> with might and main for our people and for the cities of our God. And God >> will do whatever he sees >> needs doing!" >> >> 13-14 But when Joab and his soldiers moved in to fight the Arameans, they >> ran off in full retreat. >> Then the Ammonites, seeing the Arameans run for dear >> life, took to their heels from Abishai and went into the city. >> >> So Joab left off fighting the Ammonites and returned to Jerusalem. >> >> 15-17 When the Arameans saw how badly they'd been beaten by Israel, they >> picked up the pieces and >> regrouped. Hadadezer sent for the Arameans who were across >> the River. They came to Helam. Shobach, commander of Hadadezer's army, >> led >> them. All this was >> reported to David. >> >> 17-19 So David mustered Israel, crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. >> The >> Arameans went into >> battle formation, ready for David, and the fight was on. >> But the Arameans again scattered before Israel. David killed seven >> hundred >> chariot drivers and forty >> thousand cavalry. And he mortally wounded Shobach, >> the army commander, who died on the battlefield. When all the kings who >> were vassals of Hadadezer >> saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace >> and became Israel's vassals. The Arameans were afraid to help the >> Ammonites ever again. >> >> 2 Samuel 11 >> >> David's Sin and Sorrow >> 1When that time of year came around again, the anniversary of the >> Ammonite >> aggression, David >> dispatched Joab and his fighting men of Israel in full force >> to destroy the Ammonites for good. They laid siege to Rabbah, but David >> stayed in Jerusalem. >> >> 2-5 One late afternoon, David got up from taking his nap and was >> strolling >> on the roof of the >> palace. From his vantage point on the roof he saw a woman >> bathing. The woman was stunningly beautiful. David sent to ask about her, >> and was told, "Isn't this >> Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the >> Hittite?" David sent his agents to get her. After she arrived, he went to >> bed with her. (This >> occurred during the time of "purification" following her >> period.) Then she returned home. Before long she realized she was >> pregnant. >> >> Later she sent word to David: "I'm pregnant." >> >> 6 David then got in touch with Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." Joab >> sent him. >> >> 7-8 When he arrived, David asked him for news from the front-how things >> were going with Joab and >> the troops and with the fighting. Then he said to Uriah, >> "Go home. Have a refreshing bath and a good night's rest." >> >> 8-9 After Uriah left the palace, an informant of the king was sent after >> him. But Uriah didn't go >> home. He slept that night at the palace entrance, along >> with the king's servants. >> >> 10 David was told that Uriah had not gone home. He asked Uriah, "Didn't >> you just come off a hard >> trip? So why didn't you go home?" >> >> 11 Uriah replied to David, "The Chest is out there with the fighting men >> of Israel and Judah-in >> tents. My master Joab and his servants are roughing it >> out in the fields. So, how can I go home and eat and drink and enjoy my >> wife? On your life, I'll not >> do it!" >> >> 12-13 "All right," said David, "have it your way. Stay for the day and >> I'll send you back >> tomorrow." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem the rest of the day. >> >> The next day David invited him to eat and drink with him, and David >> got >> him drunk. But in the >> evening Uriah again went out and slept with his master's >> servants. He didn't go home. >> >> 14-15 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. >> In the letter he wrote, >> "Put Uriah in the front lines where the fighting is the >> fiercest. Then pull back and leave him exposed so that he's sure to be >> killed." >> >> 16-17 So Joab, holding the city under siege, put Uriah in a place where >> he >> knew there were fierce >> enemy fighters. When the city's defenders came out to >> fight Joab, some of David's soldiers were killed, including Uriah the >> Hittite. >> >> 18-21 Joab sent David a full report on the battle. He instructed the >> messenger, "After you have >> given to the king a detailed report on the battle, if he >> flares in anger, say, 'And by the way, your servant Uriah the Hittite is >> dead.'" >> >> 22-24 Joab's messenger arrived in Jerusalem and gave the king a full >> report. He said, "The enemy >> was too much for us. They advanced on us in the open field, >> and we pushed them back to the city gate. But then arrows came hot and >> heavy on us from the city >> wall, and eighteen of the king's soldiers died." >> >> 25 When the messenger completed his report of the battle, David got angry >> at Joab. He vented it on >> the messenger: "Why did you get so close to the city? >> Didn't you know you'd be attacked from the wall? Didn't you remember how >> Abimelech son of >> Jerub-Besheth got killed? Wasn't it a woman who dropped a millstone >> on him from the wall and crushed him at Thebez? Why did you go close to >> the wall!" >> >> "By the way," said Joab's messenger, "your servant Uriah the Hittite >> is >> dead." >> >> Then David told the messenger, "Oh. I see. Tell Joab, 'Don't trouble >> yourself over this. War >> kills-sometimes one, sometimes another-you never know who's >> next. Redouble your assault on the city and destroy it.' Encourage Joab." >> >> 26-27 When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she grieved for >> her husband. When the time >> of mourning was over, David sent someone to bring her >> to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. 27-3 But God was >> not >> at all pleased with what >> David had done, and sent Nathan to David. Nathan said >> to him, "There were two men in the same city-one rich, the other poor. >> The >> rich man had huge flocks >> of sheep, herds of cattle. The poor man had nothing >> but one little female lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up >> with him and his children as >> a member of the family. It ate off his plate and drank >> from his cup and slept on his bed. It was like a daughter to him. >> >> 4 "One day a traveler dropped in on the rich man. He was too stingy to >> take an animal from his own >> herds or flocks to make a meal for his visitor, so he >> took the poor man's lamb and prepared a meal to set before his guest." >> >> 5-6 David exploded in anger. "As surely as God lives," he said to Nathan, >> "the man who did this >> ought to be lynched! He must repay for the lamb four times >> over for his crime and his stinginess!" >> >> 7-12 "You're the man!" said Nathan. "And here's what God, the God of >> Israel, has to say to you: I >> made you king over Israel. I freed you from the fist >> of Saul. I gave you your master's daughter and other wives to have and to >> hold. I gave you both >> Israel and Judah. And if that hadn't been enough, I'd have >> gladly thrown in much more. So why have you treated the word of God with >> brazen contempt, doing this >> great evil? You murdered Uriah the Hittite, then took >> his wife as your wife. Worse, you killed him with an Ammonite sword! And >> now, because you treated >> God with such contempt and took Uriah the Hittite's wife >> as your wife, killing and murder will continually plague your family. >> This >> is God speaking, >> remember! I'll make trouble for you out of your own family. >> I'll take your wives from right out in front of you. I'll give them to >> some neighbor, and he'll go >> to bed with them openly. You did your deed in secret; >> I'm doing mine with the whole country watching!" >> >> 13-14 Then David confessed to Nathan, "I've sinned against God." >> >> Nathan pronounced, "Yes, but that's not the last word. God forgives >> your sin. You won't die for >> it. But because of your blasphemous behavior, the son >> born to you will die." >> >> 15-18 After Nathan went home, God afflicted the child that Uriah's wife >> bore to David, and he came >> down sick. David prayed desperately to God for the little >> boy. He fasted, wouldn't go out, and slept on the floor. The elders in >> his >> family came in and tried >> to get him off the floor, but he wouldn't budge. Nor >> could they get him to eat anything. On the seventh day the child died. >> David's servants were afraid >> to tell him. They said, "What do we do now? While the >> child was living he wouldn't listen to a word we said. Now, with the >> child >> dead, if we speak to him >> there's no telling what he'll do." >> >> 19 David noticed that the servants were whispering behind his back, and >> realized that the boy must >> have died. >> >> He asked the servants, "Is the boy dead?" >> >> "Yes," they answered. "He's dead." >> >> 20 David got up from the floor, washed his face and combed his hair, put >> on a fresh change of >> clothes, then went into the sanctuary and worshiped. Then >> he came home and asked for something to eat. They set it before him and >> he >> ate. >> >> 21 His servants asked him, "What's going on with you? While the child was >> alive you fasted and wept >> and stayed up all night. Now that he's dead, you get >> up and eat." >> >> 22-23 "While the child was alive," he said, "I fasted and wept, thinking >> God might have mercy on me >> and the child would live. But now that he's dead, why >> fast? Can I bring him back now? I can go to him, but he can't come to >> me." >> >> 24-25 David went and comforted his wife Bathsheba. And when he slept with >> her, they conceived a >> son. When he was born they named him Solomon. God had a >> special love for him and sent word by Nathan the prophet that God wanted >> him named Jedidiah (God's >> Beloved). >> >> 26-30 Joab, at war in Rabbah against the Ammonites, captured the royal >> city. He sent messengers to >> David saying, "I'm fighting at Rabbah, and I've just >> captured the city's water supply. Hurry and get the rest of the troops >> together and set up camp here >> at the city and complete the capture yourself. Otherwise, >> I'll capture it and get all the credit instead of you." So David >> marshaled >> all the troops, went to >> Rabbah, and fought and captured it. He took the crown >> from their king's head-very heavy with gold, and with a precious stone in >> it. It ended up on David's >> head. And they plundered the city, carrying off a >> great quantity of loot. >> >> 31 David emptied the city of its people and put them to slave labor using >> saws, picks, and axes, >> and making bricks. He did this to all the Ammonite cities. >> Then David and the whole army returned to Jerusalem. >> >> >> Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning >> Skype Prayer Time. >> >> >> Contact Me At: >> Donnie Parrett >> 1956 Asa Flat Road >> Annville, Kentucky 40402 >> Home Phone: 606-364-3321 >> Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY >> Skype Name: Donnie1261 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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