WEBVTT 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.719 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:09.240 in a year. Today's reading is from 1 Chronicles 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:16.140 17 and 2 Samuel 8 -12 as well as Psalm 51. 1 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:19.820 Chronicles 17 Now it came to pass, when David 00:00:19.820 --> 00:00:21.980 was dwelling in his house, that David said to 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:24.460 Nathan the prophet, See now I dwell in a house 00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:26.399 of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:29.160 Lord is under ten curtains. Then Nathan said 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.879 to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:34.079 is with you. But it happened that night that 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.659 the word of God came to Nathan, saying, Go and 00:00:36.659 --> 00:00:39.259 tell my servant David, Thus says the Lord, You 00:00:39.259 --> 00:00:41.439 shall not build me a house to dwell in, for I 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:43.520 have not dwelt in a house since the time that 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.100 I brought up Israel even to this day, but have 00:00:46.100 --> 00:00:48.719 gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:51.579 to another. Wherever I have moved about with 00:00:51.579 --> 00:00:54.020 all Israel, have I ever spoken a word to any 00:00:54.020 --> 00:00:56.429 of the judges of Israel? whom I accompanied to 00:00:56.429 --> 00:00:58.649 shepherd my people, saying, Why have you not 00:00:58.649 --> 00:01:01.490 built me a house of cedar? Now therefore, thus 00:01:01.490 --> 00:01:03.869 shall you say to my servant David. Thus says 00:01:03.869 --> 00:01:06.260 the Lord of hosts. I took you from the sheepfold, 00:01:06.379 --> 00:01:08.739 from following the sheep, to be ruler over my 00:01:08.739 --> 00:01:11.040 people Israel. And I have been with you wherever 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.739 you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies 00:01:13.739 --> 00:01:16.239 from before you, and have made you a name like 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.379 the name of the great men who are on the earth. 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:20.939 Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people 00:01:20.939 --> 00:01:23.340 Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell 00:01:23.340 --> 00:01:26.140 in a place of their own, and move no more. Nor 00:01:26.140 --> 00:01:28.379 shall the sons of wickedness oppress them any 00:01:28.379 --> 00:01:31.280 more as previously, since the time that I commanded 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.780 judges to be over my people Israel. Also I will 00:01:34.780 --> 00:01:37.379 subdue all your enemies. Furthermore, I tell 00:01:37.379 --> 00:01:39.859 you that the Lord will build you a house, and 00:01:39.859 --> 00:01:42.219 it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when 00:01:42.219 --> 00:01:44.400 you must go to be with your fathers, that I will 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:47.000 set up your seed after you, who will be of your 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.980 sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall 00:01:49.980 --> 00:01:52.079 build me a house, and I will establish his throne 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:54.459 forever. I will be his father, and he shall be 00:01:54.459 --> 00:01:56.799 my son, and I will not take my mercy away from 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:59.400 him, as I took it from him who was before you. 00:01:59.659 --> 00:02:01.840 and I will establish him in my house and in my 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:04.079 kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.280 forever. According to all these words, and according 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.599 to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.319 Then King David went in and said before the Lord, 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.400 and he said, Who am I, O Lord God? And what is 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.199 my house, that you have brought me this far? 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:19.819 And yet this was a small thing in your sight, 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.479 O God. And you have also spoken of your servant's 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.699 house for a great while to come, and have regarded 00:02:24.699 --> 00:02:27.139 me according to the rank of a man of high degree, 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.139 O Lord God. What more can David say to you for 00:02:30.139 --> 00:02:32.319 the honor of your servant? For you know your 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:34.520 servant. O Lord, for your servant's sake and 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.699 according to your own heart, you have done all 00:02:36.699 --> 00:02:39.039 this greatness in making known all these great 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.919 things. O Lord, there is none like you, nor is 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:44.419 there any God besides you, according to all that 00:02:44.419 --> 00:02:46.819 we have heard with our ears. And who is like 00:02:46.819 --> 00:02:49.280 your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.060 God went to redeem for himself as a people, to 00:02:52.060 --> 00:02:54.280 make for yourself a name by great and awesome 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.879 deeds, by driving out nations from before your 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.479 people whom you redeemed from Egypt? For you 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:01.879 have made your people Israel, your very own people 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:04.219 forever. And you, Lord, have become their God. 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:06.919 And now, O Lord, the word which you have spoken 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:08.979 concerning your servant and concerning his house, 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.620 let it be established forever. And do as you 00:03:11.620 --> 00:03:14.080 have said. So let it be established that your 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.759 name may be magnified forever, saying, The Lord 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:19.460 of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God. 00:03:19.659 --> 00:03:21.879 And let the house of your servant David be established 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:24.349 before you. For you, O my God, have revealed 00:03:24.349 --> 00:03:26.509 to your servant that you will build him a house. 00:03:26.770 --> 00:03:29.250 Therefore your servant has found it in his heart 00:03:29.250 --> 00:03:32.370 to pray before you. And now, Lord, you are God 00:03:32.370 --> 00:03:34.530 and have promised this goodness to your servant. 00:03:34.870 --> 00:03:36.909 Now you have been pleased to bless the house 00:03:36.909 --> 00:03:39.210 of your servant, that it may continue before 00:03:39.210 --> 00:03:41.569 you forever. For you have blessed it, O Lord, 00:03:41.729 --> 00:03:47.789 and it shall be blessed forever. After this it 00:03:47.789 --> 00:03:50.009 came to pass that David attacked the Philistines 00:03:50.009 --> 00:03:52.810 and subdued them, and David took Meteg Amah from 00:03:52.810 --> 00:03:54.909 the hand of the Philistines. Then he defeated 00:03:54.909 --> 00:03:57.750 Moab, forcing them down to the ground. He measured 00:03:57.750 --> 00:04:00.050 them off with a line. With two lines he measured 00:04:00.050 --> 00:04:02.650 off those to be put to death, and with one line 00:04:02.650 --> 00:04:05.750 those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became 00:04:05.750 --> 00:04:08.710 David's servants and brought tribute. David also 00:04:08.710 --> 00:04:11.599 defeated Hadadezer. the son of Rehob, king of 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:14.099 Zobah, as he went to recover his territory at 00:04:14.099 --> 00:04:17.100 the river Euphrates. David took from him 1 ,000 00:04:17.100 --> 00:04:20.720 chariots, 700 horsemen, and 20 ,000 foot soldiers. 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.360 Also David hamstrung all the chariot horses, 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.360 except that he spared enough of them for 100 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.199 chariots. When the Syrians of Damascus came to 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.000 help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David killed 22 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.660 ,000 of the Syrians. Then David put garrisons 00:04:34.660 --> 00:04:37.000 in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:39.720 David's servants and brought tribute. So the 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.060 Lord preserved David wherever he went. And David 00:04:42.060 --> 00:04:44.379 took the shields of gold that had belonged to 00:04:44.379 --> 00:04:46.420 the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to 00:04:46.420 --> 00:04:50.000 Jerusalem. Also from Beta and from Berutai, cities 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.519 of Hadadezer, King David took a large amount 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:55.579 of bronze. When Toy king of Hamad heard that 00:04:55.579 --> 00:04:57.800 David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer, 00:04:57.899 --> 00:05:00.959 then Toy sent Joram his son to King David to 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.000 greet him and bless him, because he had fought 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.600 against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.060 had been at war with Toy, and Joram brought with 00:05:08.060 --> 00:05:10.519 him articles of silver, articles of gold, and 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:12.980 articles of bronze. King David also dedicated 00:05:12.980 --> 00:05:15.120 these to the Lord, along with the silver and 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.319 gold that he had dedicated from all the nations 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.279 which he had subdued, from Syria, from Moab, 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.810 from the people of Ammon, from the Philistines, 00:05:22.870 --> 00:05:25.509 from Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer 00:05:25.509 --> 00:05:28.310 the son of Rehob, king of Zobah. And David made 00:05:28.310 --> 00:05:30.610 himself a name when he returned from killing 00:05:30.610 --> 00:05:34.050 18 ,000 Syrians in the Valley of Salt. He also 00:05:34.050 --> 00:05:36.769 put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom he 00:05:36.769 --> 00:05:39.430 put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's 00:05:39.430 --> 00:05:41.709 servants, and the Lord preserved David wherever 00:05:41.709 --> 00:05:44.509 he went. So David reigned over all Israel, and 00:05:44.509 --> 00:05:46.990 David administered judgment and justice to all 00:05:46.990 --> 00:05:49.589 his people. Joab the son of Zeruiah was over 00:05:49.589 --> 00:05:52.420 the army. Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was 00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:55.720 recorder. Zadok, the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech, 00:05:55.740 --> 00:05:58.439 the son of Abiathar, were the priests. Sariah 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:00.839 was the scribe. Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.720 was over both the Caratites and the Pelitites, 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:07.459 and David's sons were chief ministers. Chapter 00:06:07.459 --> 00:06:10.459 9 Now David said, Is there still anyone who is 00:06:10.459 --> 00:06:12.720 left of the house of Saul, that I may show him 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.579 kindness for Jonathan's sake? And there was a 00:06:15.579 --> 00:06:17.579 servant of the house of Saul, whose name was 00:06:17.579 --> 00:06:20.220 Ziba. So when they had called him to David, the 00:06:20.220 --> 00:06:23.000 king said to him, Are you Ziba? He said, At your 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.420 service. Then the king said, Is there not still 00:06:25.420 --> 00:06:27.819 someone of the house of Saul, to whom I may show 00:06:27.819 --> 00:06:30.319 the kindness of God? And Ziba said to the king, 00:06:30.500 --> 00:06:32.920 There is still a son of Jonathan, who is lame 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.339 in his feet. So the king said to him, Where is 00:06:35.339 --> 00:06:37.980 he? And Ziba said to the king, Indeed he is in 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:40.899 the house of Machir the son of Amiel in Lodabar. 00:06:41.060 --> 00:06:43.180 Then king David sent and brought him out of the 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:45.740 house of Machir the son of Amiel from Lodabar. 00:06:46.170 --> 00:06:48.689 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the 00:06:48.689 --> 00:06:51.029 son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his 00:06:51.029 --> 00:06:53.350 face and prostrated himself. Then David said, 00:06:53.529 --> 00:06:56.269 Mephibosheth? And he answered, Here is your servant. 00:06:56.449 --> 00:06:58.810 So David said to him, Do not fear, for I will 00:06:58.810 --> 00:07:01.230 surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's 00:07:01.230 --> 00:07:03.750 sake, and will restore you to all the land of 00:07:03.750 --> 00:07:05.910 Saul your grandfather, and you shall eat bread 00:07:05.910 --> 00:07:08.310 at my table continually. Then he bowed himself 00:07:08.310 --> 00:07:10.529 and said, What is your servant that you should 00:07:10.529 --> 00:07:13.259 look upon such a dead dog as I? And the king 00:07:13.259 --> 00:07:15.899 called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.819 I have given to your master's son all that belong 00:07:18.819 --> 00:07:21.379 to Saul and to all his house. You, therefore, 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:23.980 and your sons and your servants shall work the 00:07:23.980 --> 00:07:26.000 land for him, and you shall bring in the harvest 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.459 that your master's son may have food to eat. 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:31.160 But Mephibosheth, your master's son, shall eat 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.060 bread at my table always. Now Ziba had fifteen 00:07:34.060 --> 00:07:36.680 sons and twenty servants. Then Ziba said to the 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:38.699 king, According to all that my lord the king 00:07:38.699 --> 00:07:40.899 has commanded his servant, so will your servant 00:07:40.899 --> 00:07:44.189 do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall 00:07:44.189 --> 00:07:46.329 eat at my table like one of the king's sons. 00:07:46.990 --> 00:07:49.449 Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Micah, 00:07:49.470 --> 00:07:52.170 and all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants 00:07:52.170 --> 00:07:54.649 of Mephibosheth. So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, 00:07:54.910 --> 00:07:57.370 for he ate continually at the king's table, and 00:07:57.370 --> 00:08:01.730 he was lame in both his feet. Chapter 10 It happened 00:08:01.730 --> 00:08:03.970 after this that the king of the people of Ammon 00:08:03.970 --> 00:08:06.589 died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. 00:08:06.939 --> 00:08:08.899 Then David said, I will show kindness to Hanun 00:08:08.899 --> 00:08:11.459 the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness 00:08:11.459 --> 00:08:14.160 to me. So David sent by the hand of his servants 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.920 to comfort him concerning his father. And David's 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.079 servants came into the land of the people of 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.180 Ammon. And the princes of the people of Ammon 00:08:21.180 --> 00:08:23.699 said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David 00:08:23.699 --> 00:08:25.959 really honors your father because he has sent 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:28.639 comforters to you? Has David not rather sent 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.360 servants to you to search the city, to spy it 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.840 out, and to overthrow it? Therefore Hanun took 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.480 David's servants, shaved off half of their beards, 00:08:36.539 --> 00:08:38.759 cut off their garments in the middle, add their 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:40.799 buttocks, and sent them away. When they told 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:42.899 David, he sent to meet them, because the men 00:08:42.899 --> 00:08:45.279 were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Wait 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:47.240 at Jericho until your beards have grown, and 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:49.500 then return. When the people of Amun saw that 00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:51.539 they had made themselves repulsive to David, 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.860 the people of Amun sent and hired the Syrians 00:08:53.860 --> 00:08:56.899 of Beit Rehob and the Syrians of Zobah, 20 ,000 00:08:56.899 --> 00:08:59.620 foot soldiers, and from the king of Makkah, 1 00:08:59.620 --> 00:09:02.899 ,000 men, and from Ishtob, 12 ,000 men. Now when 00:09:02.899 --> 00:09:05.580 David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:08.019 of the mighty men. Then the people of Ammon came 00:09:08.019 --> 00:09:10.220 out and put themselves in battle array at the 00:09:10.220 --> 00:09:12.480 entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Jobah, 00:09:12.500 --> 00:09:15.539 Beit Rehob, Ishtob, and Macca were by themselves 00:09:15.539 --> 00:09:17.940 in the field. When Joab saw that the battle line 00:09:17.940 --> 00:09:20.559 was against him before and behind, he chose some 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.759 of Israel's best and put them in battle array 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:24.919 against the Syrians, and the rest of the people 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.360 he put under the command of Abishah his brother, 00:09:27.460 --> 00:09:29.519 that he might set them in battle array against 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:31.940 the people of Ammon. Then he said, If the Syrians 00:09:31.940 --> 00:09:34.059 are too strong for me, then you shall help me. 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:36.000 But if the people of Ammon are too strong for 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.500 you, then I will come and help you. Be of good 00:09:38.500 --> 00:09:40.360 courage, and let us be strong for our people 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.639 and for the cities of our God. And may the Lord 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.360 do what is good in his sight. So Joab and the 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:47.500 people who were with him drew near for the battle 00:09:47.500 --> 00:09:49.639 against the Syrians, and they fled before him. 00:09:49.740 --> 00:09:51.779 When the people of Ammon saw that the Syrians 00:09:51.779 --> 00:09:54.480 were fleeing, they also fled before Abishah and 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:56.940 entered the city. So Joab returned from the people 00:09:56.940 --> 00:09:59.250 of Ammon and went to Jerusalem. When Assyrians 00:09:59.250 --> 00:10:01.409 saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they 00:10:01.409 --> 00:10:04.090 gathered together. Then Hadadezer sent and brought 00:10:04.090 --> 00:10:05.850 out the Assyrians who were beyond the river, 00:10:05.929 --> 00:10:08.490 and they came to Helam. And Shobak, the commander 00:10:08.490 --> 00:10:11.629 of Hadadezer's army, went before them. When it 00:10:11.629 --> 00:10:13.990 was told David, he gathered all Israel, crossed 00:10:13.990 --> 00:10:16.649 over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And Assyrians 00:10:16.649 --> 00:10:18.870 set themselves in battle array against David 00:10:18.870 --> 00:10:21.220 and fought with him. Then the Syrians fled before 00:10:21.220 --> 00:10:24.379 Israel, and David killed 700 charioteers and 00:10:24.379 --> 00:10:27.559 40 ,000 horsemen of the Syrians, and struck Shobak, 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.600 the commander of their army, who died there. 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:31.759 And when all the kings, who were servants to 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.399 Hadadezer, saw that they were defeated by Israel, 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.320 they made peace with Israel and served them. 00:10:36.419 --> 00:10:38.759 So the Syrians were afraid to help the people 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:42.779 of Ammon anymore. Chapter 11 It happened in the 00:10:42.779 --> 00:10:44.940 spring of the year, at the time when kings go 00:10:44.940 --> 00:10:47.639 out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:49.840 with him. and all Israel, and they destroyed 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.259 the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But 00:10:52.259 --> 00:10:54.370 David remained at Jerusalem. Then it happened 00:10:54.370 --> 00:10:56.470 one evening that David arose from his bed and 00:10:56.470 --> 00:10:58.789 walked on the roof of the king's house. And from 00:10:58.789 --> 00:11:01.129 the roof he saw a woman bathing. And the woman 00:11:01.129 --> 00:11:03.889 was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and 00:11:03.889 --> 00:11:06.250 inquired about the woman. And someone said, Is 00:11:06.250 --> 00:11:08.710 this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the 00:11:08.710 --> 00:11:11.730 wife of Uriah the Hittite? Then David sent messengers 00:11:11.730 --> 00:11:13.809 and took her. And she came to him, and he lay 00:11:13.809 --> 00:11:16.149 with her. For she was cleansed from her impurity, 00:11:16.269 --> 00:11:18.090 and she returned to her house. And the woman 00:11:18.090 --> 00:11:20.649 conceived. So she sent and told David, and said, 00:11:20.710 --> 00:11:23.450 I am with child. Then David sent to Joab saying, 00:11:23.669 --> 00:11:26.330 Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah 00:11:26.330 --> 00:11:28.990 to David. When Uriah had come to him, David asked 00:11:28.990 --> 00:11:31.470 how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, 00:11:31.590 --> 00:11:33.769 and how the war prospered. And David said to 00:11:33.769 --> 00:11:35.990 Uriah, Go down to your house and wash your feet. 00:11:36.169 --> 00:11:38.309 So Uriah departed from the king's house, and 00:11:38.309 --> 00:11:40.929 a gift of food from the king followed him. But 00:11:40.929 --> 00:11:43.149 Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with 00:11:43.149 --> 00:11:45.190 all the servants of his lord, and did not go 00:11:45.190 --> 00:11:47.529 down to his house. So when they told David saying, 00:11:47.690 --> 00:11:50.149 Uriah did not go down to his house, David said 00:11:50.149 --> 00:11:52.779 to Uriah, Did you not come from a journey? Why 00:11:52.779 --> 00:11:54.860 did you not go down to your house? And Uriah 00:11:54.860 --> 00:11:57.700 said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah are 00:11:57.700 --> 00:12:00.240 dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:02.840 of my lord are encamped in open fields. Shall 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.159 I then go to my house to eat and drink and to 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.580 lie with my wife? As you live and as your soul 00:12:07.580 --> 00:12:10.080 lives, I will not do this thing. Then David said 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.639 to Uriah, Wait here today also, and tomorrow 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.379 I will let you depart. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem 00:12:15.379 --> 00:12:17.799 that day and the next. Now when David called 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:20.320 him, he ate and drank before him, and he made 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.700 him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:25.139 on his bed with the servants of his Lord. But 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:27.700 he did not go down to his house. In the morning 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:29.860 it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab 00:12:29.860 --> 00:12:32.360 and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:34.559 in the letter saying, Set Uriah in the forefront 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:36.879 of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, 00:12:36.940 --> 00:12:39.799 that he may be struck down and die. So it was 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.039 while Joab besieged the city that he assigned 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.600 Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:47.019 men. Then the men of the city came out and fought 00:12:47.019 --> 00:12:49.019 with Joab, and some of the people of the servants 00:12:49.019 --> 00:12:51.860 of David fell, and Uriah the Hittite died also. 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:54.700 Then Joab sent and told David all the things 00:12:54.700 --> 00:12:56.860 concerning the war, and charged the messenger, 00:12:57.019 --> 00:12:59.220 saying, When you have finished telling the matters 00:12:59.220 --> 00:13:01.759 of the war to the king, if it happens that the 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:04.360 king's wrath rises and he says to you, Why did 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:06.799 you approach so near to the city when you fought? 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.100 Did you not know that they would shoot from the 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:11.919 wall? Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerobesheth? 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.960 Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.399 on him from the wall, so that he died at Tebiz? 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.629 Why did you go near the wall? Then you shall 00:13:19.629 --> 00:13:22.169 say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 00:13:22.370 --> 00:13:24.590 So the messenger went and came and told David 00:13:24.590 --> 00:13:27.129 all that Joab had sent by him. And the messenger 00:13:27.129 --> 00:13:29.470 said to David, Surely the men prevailed against 00:13:29.470 --> 00:13:32.590 us and came out to us in the field. Then we drove 00:13:32.590 --> 00:13:34.529 them back as far as the entrance of the gate. 00:13:34.769 --> 00:13:36.990 The archers shot from the wall at your servants, 00:13:37.129 --> 00:13:39.429 and some of the king's servants are dead. And 00:13:39.429 --> 00:13:41.429 your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 00:13:41.649 --> 00:13:43.909 Then David said to the messenger, Thus you shall 00:13:43.909 --> 00:13:46.370 say to Joab, Do not let this thing displease 00:13:46.370 --> 00:13:48.929 you. For the sword devours one as well as another. 00:13:49.450 --> 00:13:51.710 Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow 00:13:51.710 --> 00:13:54.009 it. So encourage him. When the wife of Uriah 00:13:54.009 --> 00:13:56.289 heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned 00:13:56.289 --> 00:13:58.370 for her husband. And when her mourning was over, 00:13:58.509 --> 00:14:00.769 David sent and brought her to his house, and 00:14:00.769 --> 00:14:03.070 she became his wife and bore him a son. But the 00:14:03.070 --> 00:14:05.210 thing that David had done displeased the Lord. 00:14:06.429 --> 00:14:09.470 Chapter 12 Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. 00:14:09.610 --> 00:14:11.629 And he came to him and said to him, There were 00:14:11.629 --> 00:14:14.190 two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. 00:14:14.570 --> 00:14:16.830 The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and 00:14:16.830 --> 00:14:19.190 herds, but the poor man had nothing, except one 00:14:19.190 --> 00:14:21.570 little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished, 00:14:21.690 --> 00:14:23.529 and it grew up together with him and with his 00:14:23.529 --> 00:14:25.990 children. It ate of his own food and drank from 00:14:25.990 --> 00:14:28.529 his own cup and lay in his bosom, and it was 00:14:28.529 --> 00:14:30.690 like a daughter to him. And a traveller came 00:14:30.690 --> 00:14:33.049 to the rich man, who refused to take from his 00:14:33.049 --> 00:14:35.590 own flock and from his own herd, to prepare one 00:14:35.590 --> 00:14:38.149 for the wayfaring man who had come to him. But 00:14:38.149 --> 00:14:40.470 he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for 00:14:40.470 --> 00:14:42.649 the man who had come to him. So David's anger 00:14:42.649 --> 00:14:44.789 was greatly aroused against the man, and he said 00:14:44.789 --> 00:14:47.409 to Nathan, As the Lord lives, the man who hath 00:14:47.409 --> 00:14:49.929 done this shall surely die, and he shall restore 00:14:49.929 --> 00:14:52.730 fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing, 00:14:52.870 --> 00:14:55.169 and because he had no pity. Then Nathan said 00:14:55.169 --> 00:14:57.669 to David, You are the man. Thus says the Lord 00:14:57.669 --> 00:15:00.289 God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, 00:15:00.429 --> 00:15:02.690 and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I 00:15:02.690 --> 00:15:04.549 gave you your master's house and your master's 00:15:04.549 --> 00:15:07.090 wives into your keeping, and gave you the house 00:15:07.090 --> 00:15:09.419 of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too 00:15:09.419 --> 00:15:11.700 little, I also would have given you much more. 00:15:11.820 --> 00:15:13.720 Why have you despised the commandment of the 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.179 Lord, to do evil in his sight? You have killed 00:15:16.179 --> 00:15:18.379 Uriah the Hittite with the sword, you have taken 00:15:18.379 --> 00:15:20.620 his wife to be your wife, and have killed him 00:15:20.620 --> 00:15:23.100 with the sword of the people of Amun. Now therefore 00:15:23.100 --> 00:15:25.240 the sword shall never depart from your house, 00:15:25.340 --> 00:15:27.149 because you have despised me. and have taken 00:15:27.149 --> 00:15:28.990 the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. 00:15:29.210 --> 00:15:31.950 Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up adversity 00:15:31.950 --> 00:15:34.730 against you from your own house, and I will take 00:15:34.730 --> 00:15:36.830 your wives before your eyes and give them to 00:15:36.830 --> 00:15:38.809 your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives 00:15:38.809 --> 00:15:41.570 in the sight of this sun. For you did it secretly, 00:15:41.809 --> 00:15:44.429 but I will do this thing before all Israel before 00:15:44.429 --> 00:15:46.970 the sun. So David said to Nathan, I have sinned 00:15:46.970 --> 00:15:49.490 against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The 00:15:49.490 --> 00:15:51.970 Lord also has put away your sin, you shall not 00:15:51.970 --> 00:15:55.000 die. However, because by this deed you have given 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:56.879 great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.500 blaspheme, the child also who is born to you 00:15:59.500 --> 00:16:02.240 shall surely die. Then Nathan departed to his 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.659 house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's 00:16:04.659 --> 00:16:07.299 wife bore to David, and it became ill. David 00:16:07.299 --> 00:16:09.639 therefore pleaded with God for the child, and 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.019 David fasted and went in and lay all night on 00:16:12.019 --> 00:16:14.159 the ground. So the elders of his house arose 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.399 and went to him to raise him up from the ground, 00:16:16.500 --> 00:16:19.000 but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:21.799 Then on the seventh day it came to pass that 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:23.899 the child died. And the servants of David were 00:16:23.899 --> 00:16:26.179 afraid to tell him that the child was dead. For 00:16:26.179 --> 00:16:28.120 they said, Indeed, while the child was alive, 00:16:28.179 --> 00:16:30.399 we spoke to him, and he would not heed our voice. 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.259 How can we tell him that the child is dead? He 00:16:33.259 --> 00:16:35.860 may do some harm. When David saw that his servants 00:16:35.860 --> 00:16:38.340 were whispering, David perceived that the child 00:16:38.340 --> 00:16:40.440 was dead. Therefore David said to his servants, 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.179 Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead. 00:16:43.610 --> 00:16:46.029 So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed 00:16:46.029 --> 00:16:48.330 himself, and changed his clothes. And he went 00:16:48.330 --> 00:16:50.289 into the house of the Lord and worshipped. Then 00:16:50.289 --> 00:16:52.250 he went to his own house, and when he requested, 00:16:52.490 --> 00:16:54.870 they set food before him, and he ate. Then his 00:16:54.870 --> 00:16:57.070 servants said to him, What is this that you have 00:16:57.070 --> 00:16:59.490 done? You fasted and wept for the child while 00:16:59.490 --> 00:17:01.889 he was alive. But when the child died, you arose 00:17:01.889 --> 00:17:04.670 and ate food. And he said, While the child was 00:17:04.670 --> 00:17:07.369 alive, I fasted and wept. For I said, Who can 00:17:07.369 --> 00:17:09.329 tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, 00:17:09.450 --> 00:17:11.950 that the child may live? But now he is dead. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.759 Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:17.599 I shall go to him, but he shall not return to 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.119 me. Then David comforted Bathsheba his wife, 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:22.519 and went into her and lay with her. So she bore 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:24.720 a son, and he called his name Solomon. Now the 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:27.019 Lord loved him, and he sent word by the hand 00:17:27.019 --> 00:17:28.960 of Nathan the prophet. So he called his name 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:32.119 Jedidiah, because of the Lord. Now Joab fought 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.559 against Rabbah of the people of Ammon, and took 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.140 the royal city. And Joab sent messengers to David 00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:39.500 and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and I 00:17:39.500 --> 00:17:41.809 have taken the city's water supply. now therefore 00:17:41.809 --> 00:17:44.190 gather the rest of the people together and encamp 00:17:44.190 --> 00:17:46.549 against the city and take it lest i take the 00:17:46.549 --> 00:17:49.190 city and it be called after my name so david 00:17:49.190 --> 00:17:51.230 gathered all the people together and went to 00:17:51.230 --> 00:17:54.170 rabba fought against it and took it then he took 00:17:54.170 --> 00:17:56.470 their king's crown from his head its weight was 00:17:56.470 --> 00:17:59.029 a talent of gold with precious stones and it 00:17:59.029 --> 00:18:01.410 was set on david's head Also he brought out the 00:18:01.410 --> 00:18:03.509 spoil of the city in great abundance, and he 00:18:03.509 --> 00:18:05.250 brought out the people who were in it, and put 00:18:05.250 --> 00:18:07.710 them to work with saws and iron picks and iron 00:18:07.710 --> 00:18:10.410 axes, and made them cross over to the brickworks. 00:18:10.589 --> 00:18:12.670 So he did to all the cities of the people of 00:18:12.670 --> 00:18:14.670 Ammon. Then David and all the people returned 00:18:14.670 --> 00:18:19.230 to Jerusalem. Psalm 51 Inscription To the Chief 00:18:19.230 --> 00:18:22.049 Musician A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet 00:18:22.049 --> 00:18:24.750 went to him after he had gone into Bathsheba. 00:18:25.109 --> 00:18:27.349 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your 00:18:27.349 --> 00:18:29.430 lovingkindness, according to the multitude of 00:18:29.430 --> 00:18:31.630 your tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions, 00:18:31.690 --> 00:18:33.690 wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse 00:18:33.690 --> 00:18:36.349 me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, 00:18:36.369 --> 00:18:38.990 and my sin is always before me. Against you, 00:18:39.049 --> 00:18:41.349 you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in 00:18:41.349 --> 00:18:43.369 your sight, that you may be found just when you 00:18:43.369 --> 00:18:45.849 speak, and blameless when you judge. Behold, 00:18:45.849 --> 00:18:48.009 I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my 00:18:48.009 --> 00:18:50.210 mother conceived me. Behold, you desire truth 00:18:50.210 --> 00:18:52.809 in inward parts, and in the hidden part you will 00:18:52.809 --> 00:18:54.970 make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop 00:18:54.970 --> 00:18:56.829 and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be 00:18:56.829 --> 00:18:59.349 whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, 00:18:59.450 --> 00:19:01.950 that the bones you have broken may rejoice. Hide 00:19:01.950 --> 00:19:04.210 your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. 00:19:04.569 --> 00:19:06.529 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew 00:19:06.529 --> 00:19:08.869 a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me 00:19:08.869 --> 00:19:10.369 away from your presence and do not take your 00:19:10.369 --> 00:19:12.589 Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of 00:19:12.589 --> 00:19:14.410 your salvation and uphold me by your generous 00:19:14.410 --> 00:19:16.789 spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your 00:19:16.789 --> 00:19:19.430 ways and sinners shall be converted to you. Deliver 00:19:19.430 --> 00:19:21.609 me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God 00:19:21.609 --> 00:19:23.589 of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud 00:19:23.589 --> 00:19:25.869 of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, 00:19:25.890 --> 00:19:28.049 and my mouth shall show forth your praise. For 00:19:28.049 --> 00:19:30.130 you do not desire sacrifice, or else I would 00:19:30.130 --> 00:19:32.069 give it. You do not delight in burnt offering. 00:19:32.269 --> 00:19:34.930 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a 00:19:34.930 --> 00:19:37.170 broken and a contrite heart. These, O God, you 00:19:37.170 --> 00:19:39.309 will not despise. Do good in your good pleasure 00:19:39.309 --> 00:19:41.869 to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. Then you 00:19:41.869 --> 00:19:43.630 shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, 00:19:43.910 --> 00:19:45.970 with burnt offering and whole burnt offering. 00:19:46.089 --> 00:19:53.220 Then they shall offer bulls on your altar. I 00:19:53.220 --> 00:19:55.059 hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I 00:19:55.059 --> 00:19:57.319 did and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.839 to continue on our journey. God bless you and 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:00.539 have a great day.