Sunday Sermonette: Sin and Honor

Basically four things happen in Chapter 12.  God sends a messenger, Nathan, to tell David it was bad for him to get Uriah killed and take his wife. Nathan threatens, on behalf of God, to have David ' s wives raped in public. That ' ll teach him! Then he recants the threat and just says that God will kill David ' s and Bathsheba ' s baby. God does kill the Baby. David and Bathsheba have another baby, who will be David ' s successorThe Israelites conquer the Ammonites and enslave them. David gets a new crown (which by the way weighs about 62 pounds).That ' s biblical morality.12 And theLord sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds;3 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his morsel, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.4 Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man ’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”5 Then David ’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, “As theLord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die;6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfo...
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