{"id":7536,"date":"2016-04-27T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T07:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2016-04-26T12:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T19:56:38","slug":"youre-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/04\/27\/youre-the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re the Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan then said to David, \u201cYou are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel, \u2018It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul. <\/p>\n

\u2018I also gave you your master\u2019s house and your master\u2019s wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these! <\/p>\n

\u2018Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. <\/p>\n

\u2018Now 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.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThus says the LORD, \u2018Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. <\/p>\n

\u2018Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n

Then David said to Nathan, \u201cI have sinned against the LORD.\u201d And Nathan said to David, \u201cThe LORD also has taken away your sin; you shall not die. (2 Samuel 12:7-13)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just because God is merciful doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s no punishment. David took Bathsheba to his bed, got her pregnant. Then, in attempting to hide what he had done, he had her husband put into the front lines of a battle so he would die.<\/p>\n

David was guilty of two crimes that were punishable by death: adultery and murder (see Leviticus 20:10 and Numbers 35:31). According to the Bible, there were no mitigating circumstances, no sacrifice that could be offered, no restitution that could be paid. <\/p>\n

But the prophet Nathan told David that God had taken his sin away and that he wouldn\u2019t die. David got mercy, rather than full justice.<\/p>\n

Despite the mercy, however, David still suffered. The infant born of the illicit relationship died. His first born son, Absalom, the heir to the throne, murdered his younger brother Amnon after he raped his sister Tamar. Later, Absalom led a rebellion against David and took David\u2019s concubines as his own. Absalom died in the resulting civil war and David was restored to his throne. Bathsheba gave birth to another son, Solomon, who would take the throne after David. God was merciful\u2014but David still suffered for his sins.<\/p>\n

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