Posted by Chester Morton / Friday, 29 January 2016 / No comments
The encounter between David and Prophet Nathan
After King David had impregnated Bathsheba, Uriah’s wife, and had failed to pin it on her husband, Uriah, he orchestrated the death of Uriah and married Bathsheba, the woman. After Bathsheba had finished morning her
husband, David married her and the woman bore him the son who was named Solomon.
God was very angry with David because of what he had done.
He sent the Prophet Nathan to rebuke David for his sins. When Nathan got to David,
he narrated the parable of the ewe lamb to him. Nathan said there were two men
in a city, one was rich and the other was poor. The rich man had man a lot of
flocks but the poor man had only one ewe lamb. The poor man brought up his
little ewe lamb and nourished it very well. The only ewe lamb ate from his hand
and drunk from his cup. It laid in his bosom and it was like a daughter to
him.
One day, a traveler visited the rich man. The rich man did
not feed his visitor with any of his flock, he rather went for the only ewe
lamb belonging to the poor man and prepared a meal for his visitor.
When David heard this, he became very angry with the rich
man. He proclaimed that the man who had done that deserved to die. Nathan
quickly told David that he was the one.
David regretted his action. He pleaded for forgiveness.
Nathan reminded David of all the Lord had done for him, making him a king over
all of Israel, saving him from the hand of Saul, and giving him many wives and
concubines. In spite of all these, he had killed Uriah with the sword of the
Ammonites and had taken his wife.
Nathan told David that what he had done was a grievous one
in the sight of God. He told him that the sword would never depart from his
house. His neighbor would sleep with his wives in the open before the
congregation. David pleaded for forgiveness and God forgave David but God said
the child that was to be born would die because David had scorned the Lord.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
1. What led to the encounter between David and Nathan.
2. Narrate the story in which David slept with Uriah's wife and killed him afterward.
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