Read 2 Samuel 11 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraphs:
11:1 {s} David did not go out to battle with Israel’s army, but remained in Jerusalem
11:2-15 {s} Adultery with Bathsheba, so that David commanded the murder of Uriah her husband
11:16-24 {s} The murder of Uriah the Hittite by warfare accomplished
11:25-27 {p} Bathsheba mourned, but then became David’s wife, and bore him a son
The Strong Theme:
11:1-27 {sx3+p} Adultery with Bathsheba and David’s murder of Uriah
2 Samuel 11:2-27 Chiastic Structure:
Even though, in the history of Israel, God used men as Prophetic Types of Messiah, those men were still men. They were not Messiah, and were still in need of Messiah to save them from their sins. And as the history of David shows, you can be a great man in the kingdom, and a hero of the faith, and a man after God’s own heart, and still stumble, and succumb to the temptation of sin. As the apostle writes,
Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor 10:12
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