Failure: Lack of Success
In the spring of the year,
the time when kings go out to battle,
David sent Joab, and his servants with him,
and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites
and besieged Rabbah.
But David remained at Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 11:1 ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION (ESV)
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing;
and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman.
And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba,
the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her,
and she came to him, and he lay with her.
(Now she had been purifying herself from
her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.
And the woman conceived, and she sent
and told David, “I am pregnant.”
2 Samuel 11:2-5 (ESV)
For we do not have a high priest [Jesus] who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,
but one who in every respect has been
tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 4:15 (ESV)
When the wife of Uriah [Bathsheba] heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over
her husband. And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
2 Samuel 11:26-27 (ESV)
Nathan said to David, “You are the man!
Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now 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.’ Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’” David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin;
you shall not die. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord,
the child who is born to you shall die.”
Then Nathan went to his house.
2 Samuel 12:7-15a (ESV)
Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son,
and he called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him and sent a message by Nathan the prophet.
So he [Nathan] called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord. [Jedidiah means beloved of the Lord]
2 Samuel 12:24-25 (ESV)
I can do all things through [Christ]
who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13 (ESV)
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.
1 Peter 1:3-4a New International Version