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Verse 2 Samuel 12:9. _THOU HAST KILLED URIAH_] THOU art the MURDERER,
as having planned his death; the sword of the Ammonites was THY
_instrument_ only....
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2. THE MESSAGE OF GOD AND DAVID'S CONFESSION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE
CHASTISEMENT
CHAPTER 12
_ 1. The Lord's message through Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1)_
2. David's anger (2 Samuel 12:5)
3. Thou art t...
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2 SAMUEL 12. DAVID'S REPENTANCE. CAPTURE OF RABBAH (J). The section
concerning Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1_ a_) is sometimes regarded as a later
addition by some one who was anxious to point out and emphasi...
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EVIL. Hebrew. _ra_. _a_ `. App-44. with Art.
THOU HAST KILLED. Not Joab, or the Ammonites.
CHILDREN. sons....
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_Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the_Lord] Cp. Numbers
15:31; 1 Samuel 15:23; 1 Samuel 15:26. Great as was David's sin
against Uriah and Bath-sheba, his sin against God was greater in...
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The Prophet's sentence. David's confession
7. _Thou_art _the man_ The consciousness that they were God's
messengers inspired the prophets with fearless courage. Samuel rebuked
Saul for his disobedien...
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_God's Judgment._ 2 Samuel 12:7-23
7 And Nathan said to David, Thou _art_ the man. Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee
out of the hand of Saul;
8...
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DAVID'S REPENTANCE AND PARDON. THE CAPTURE OF RABBAH
4. To dress for the wayfaring man] We may notice Eastern ideas of
hospitality: cp. Genesis 18:3....
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 12
NATHAN’S MESSAGE TO DAVID
V1 The *Lord sent Nathan to David. Nathan went to David and he said,
‘Two men lived in a city. One ma...
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HAST SLAIN HIM. — This is a different and stronger word than
“killed” in the first part of the verse, and might well be
translated _murdered._ It was murder in the eyes of the Lord, although
accomplis...
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מַדּ֜וּעַ בָּזִ֣יתָ ׀ אֶת ־דְּבַ֣ר
יְהוָ֗ה לַ...
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CHAPTER XV.
_ DAVID AND NATHAN._
2 Samuel 12:1; 2 Samuel 12:26.
IT is often the method of the writers of Scripture, when the stream of
public history has been broken by a private or personal inciden...
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THOU ART THE MAN
2 Samuel 12:1
A year followed on his sin, but David gave no sign. He describes his
condition during that awful time in Psalms 32:3. Conscience scourged
him incessantly, but he did no...
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A year passed away. The child of Bathsheba was born. We can imagine
what that year had been to David. Bathsheba, whom in all probability
he truly loved, was with him as his wife; but it is inevitable...
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Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil
in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and
hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with...
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(7) And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee
out of the hand of Saul; (8) And I gave thee thy master's hous...
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We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first
desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that,
although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13.
The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer
acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings
go...
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WHEREFORE HAST THOU DESPISED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, TO DO EVIL
IN HIS SIGHT?.... The commandment referred to is the law of God,
particularly the sixth and seventh precepts of it, Exodus 20:13; w...
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Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil
in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and
hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with...
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_Thou hast killed Uriah_ David's contriving his death was as bad as if
he had killed him with his own hand. _With the sword of the children
of Ammon_ This was an aggravation of his crime, that he caus...
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1 Nathans parable of the Ewe lambe, causeth Dauid to be his owne
Iudge.
7 Dauid, reproued by Nathan, confesseth his sinne and is pardoned.
15 Dauid mourneth and prayeth for the childe, while it liue...
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Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, literally,
"the word," that is, the law, of God, TO DO EVIL IN HIS SIGHT, in this
double transgression? THOU HAST KILLED URIAH, THE HITTITE, W...
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Nathan's Reproof and its Success...
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David did not immediately confess his sin to God, andPsalms 32:3 shows
that the Lord waited for some time at least before sending the prophet
Nathan to him, likely over nine months, for a son had been...
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1-14 God will not suffer his people to lie still in sin. By this
parable Nathan drew from David a sentence against himself. Great need
there is of prudence in giving reproofs. In his application, he...
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THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, i. e. those laws of God which forbade
thee to do this thing, by not giving them that respect and observance
which they deserved. URIAH THE HITTITE; that valiant, and gener...
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2 Samuel 12:9 despised H959 (H8804) commandment H1697 LORD H3068 do
H6213 (H8800) evil H7451 sight H5869 killed...
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CONTENTS: David's rebuke and repentance. Birth of Solomon. Ammonite
victory.
CHARACTERS: God, David, Nathan, Bathsheba, Joab.
CONCLUSION: If the believer, brought face to face with his sins
sincerel...
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2 Samuel 12:1. _The Lord sent Nathan to David._ The substance of the
mission, the visitations he foretold, the perfect accomplishment of
them, as well from that very day as in future ages, leaves not...
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_Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord._
THE SINNER’S TREATMENT OF GOD’S LAW
Some men treat the law and testimony of the Lord as if it were like
plaster of Paris, to be poured over...
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_And the Lord sent Nathan unto David._
NATHAN REPROVING DAVID
I. David’s sin. David, it appears, to avenge the outrage which bad
been perpetrated on his ambassadors by Hanun, the king of the
Ammonite...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 12:1 Through the prophet NATHAN, God calls
David to account for his sins of adultery and murder (ch. 2 Samuel
11:1)....
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 12:7 David has DESPISED the Lord and his
word.
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 12:9 WITH THE SWORD is a general term for
causing violent death, as in 2 Samuel 11:25....
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES
2 Samuel 12:3. “WAS UNTO HIM,” etc. “The custom of keeping pet
sheep in the house, as we keep lap-dogs, is still met with among the
Arabs.” (_Keil_.) “As a poor man he...
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 12:1
JEHOVAH SENT NATHAN UNTO DAVID. Though David had remained unrepentant
for nearly a year, for we read in 2 Samuel 12:14 that the child was
born, yet we are not to suppose that...
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David thought that things were just going great until the prophet
Nathan came to him.
Nathan said to David, There is a man in your kingdom who is very
wealthy, had many herds, many flocks many servant...
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1 Samuel 15:19; 1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Chronicles 33:6; 2 Samuel 11:14;...
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To be thy wife — To marry her whom he had defiled, and whose husband
he had slain, was an affront upon the ordinance of marriage, making
that not only to palliate, but in a manner to consecrate such
v...