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Good Things Come in Threes!!!!!

Well this isn’t the final part, so that’s awkward. Swiftly moving on cause this is going to be a long one.

David was spiritually blind. He didn’t realise that the actions of that one night would lead to the destruction of his kingdom and his life. “Bit dramatic”. Keep reading.

So, David went and sent for Bathsheba, and come on he’s the King, so “she came to him, and he slept with her”. David had no regard for tomorrow. It didn’t matter. All that mattered was his passion and satisfying his present desires. One night of passion, what’s the harm?Well David didn’t count on getting Bathsheba pregnant. Now a simple sin has gotten complicated.

Now what to do? He’s gotta do something. Anything. He’s gotta cover this up. Nobody can know. I mean its David. The King. He can do whatever he wants and have whoever he wants. So David thought of a plan to cover up his mess (2 Samuel 11:6-17). Don’t we do this at times. We make a mistake and our first response is to try to cover it, so that we never have to admit to it.

Let’s breakdown this plan of David’s. Well David was really quite the planner, and came up with a Plan A, B and C. He really wasn’t trying to get caught.

Plan A: “Tell my man Uriah to come home and wash-up. He’s been fighting real hard and as my good friend, I really want him to spend the weekend with his wife”. (Leke Translation)

What a nice guy! David must’ve felt so guilty, that he wanted Uriah to come and enjoy himself. Not really. David hoped Uriah and Bathsheba would have sex and Uriah would then think the baby was his. I’ve got to commend David; he really is a tactician.

However, David didn’t account for how good of a man Uriah was. ¹¹ Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!” Plan A failed.

Well, David always had a plan B.

Plan B: Get Uriah drunk and send him home. Hopefully he would sleep with his wife and David could fix his mess.

¹³ At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home.

Even plan B didn’t work. So David had to pull out the big-guns. ¹⁴ In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. ¹⁵ In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”

I want you all to really deep how calculated and cold-hearted David was. David made Uriah deliver his own death warrant to Joab! It’s hard to think that David was just trying to cover up his own sin. This was something more than a man who’s panicking. Trying to cover up sin nearly always leads to more sin, and when it doesn’t, someone still ends up hurt.

And when David found out about Uriah, his good friend, his bro, dead, how did he react? Surely, he must’ve felt great remorse. Nah.

²⁵ David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.

In the Leke translation: “Bro it happens to the best of us. You win some and you lose some. Unfortunately, Uriah lost, but stay happy and hopeful, the battle isn’t over”.

David was far from the point of remorse. But things would soon change.

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