The book of 2 Samuel tells the story of King David and his rise to power, as well as reign- the good and the bad. The focus here will be on 2 Samuel, chapters eleven through thirteen, which depict some of the darker times in David’s rule.
The theme of these three chapters is God’s modeling of King David. This theme develops throughout the three chapters with the disobedience and punishment of David.
God creates laws for His children not because he wants to restrict us, but because he desires a relationship with us so that we may be able to draw nearer to Him. He also gives us laws to protect us from the harmful repercussions of sin. Therefore, if David had followed God’s laws, he would not have been faced with such turmoil towards the end of his kingship.
Before becoming a king, David is solely dependent on God. However, after realizing that kingship comes with many powers, David starts to rely on his will to overpower his judgment and knowledge of God and His will. Although it may seem like David’s sin begins at the moment he lays his eyes on the beautiful Bathsheba bathing on the rooftop, his sins actually begin many nights before when he makes decisions that turn his focus from the will of God to the will of self. Thus, David’s first sin of focusing on his own will, rather than God’s, leads to one sin after another which eventually causes a curse to fall upon David’s household.
When David commits the sin of adultery with Bathseba and gets her pregnant, and then murders her husband Uriah, he does not realize that what he has done is wrong. Therefore, God sends Nathan to David, who uses the parable of the rich man who steals the poor man’s sheep to let David know of his own sin. David responds to the parable by condemning...
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...t his punishments. He knows that in order to be respected, He must follow His words and teach lessons. God develops David into a better ruler, a better man and a better example through punishment and forgiveness.
The theological themes that stood out in this narrative are God’s willingness to forgive after David’s repentance, and his need for punishment. If David had not repented, God would have no reason to forgive him, but he did repent, and God forgave him. If God had not forgiven David for his wrongdoings, David would have strayed from him. At the same time, if God had not punished David, David would have taken everything into his own hands and taken God for granted. The cycle of punishment, repentance and forgiveness is something seen very often in this section of the Bible, as well as in other parts. Without that cycle, God would not be same God we know today.
Loving God and hating his own mother kept David strong. David loved God, he prayed every night to God. He hated his mother so much he wanted to outthink her tricks, he did. He used different tactics like over exaggerating his pain when he got beat, putting a wet cloth over his mouth when his mother put cleaning products in a room with him. David kept counting time in his head in order to make the time pass faster.
the things beyond his surrounding. He also gave David the confidence he needed to accept his
A loss of David’s innocence appears during his killing of a magpie. This “it can be done in a flick of the finger”. The particular significance about this plays an important part in his as he considers that he also is capable of committing such unfortunate yet immoral things. “Looking in the dead bird’s eye, I realised that these strange, unthought of connections - sex and death, lust and violence, desire and degradation - are there, there, deep in even a good heart’s chambers”.
Then one day when he was twenty, he suddenly felt that he had the wrath of God on him. He realized that his sin was not forgiven, he was just doing good works and religious things to make up the difference. Even though he realized this, he still thought that his good works would still account for his good. He prayed and prayed but could not get anywhere. He even set a time to fast, but still God did not seem to work. All the while God was softening David's heart, David was having a problem with self-confidence. He was confident that the works and the religious things which he did were going to help him.5
...hard to understand fully because of its comprehensive metaphoric language and the difference in culture from present day. It is also sometimes hard for us to understand God's actions because we think of him simply loving and caring rather than ruthless and violent. We need to understand that the creation of mankind is taking place in the recordings of these scriptures and so things may not be as customary as we would like to think. I believe that God has a plan for everyone. And, in the case of Saul, he had a plan to take away his kingdom in order to pass it on to David so the formation of history could continue. I also think this passage, like many other passages from the Bible, has a message linked to it, a lesson to the story if you will. The lesson is to prove that God's unlimited power must never be taken for granted or there surely will be hell to pay.
They eventually found a building that was full of garbage and trash that someone had been putting in there for their own keeping, and they got the building for $42,000, but they had to come up with a way to make a down payment of $4,200. David and the others on his committee prayed day in and day out for this amount of money to come in, and they finally got that amount plus an extra $200 dollars. They ended up getting the building and fixing it up and calling it Teen Challenge Center. They eventually got people to come and work with them to help bring in the kids from all these broken situations, so they could help them. David continues to tell of how much prayer and faith that it took to run this kind of operation. David said “before September tenth, the money will be in our hands, I’m sure. By that Date, I’ll have a check for $15,000 to show you. I just thought we ought to than God ahead of time” (Wilkerson 212). Through out the book one can see that David is just like any other human being. He has his doubts, but he has one constant thing that keeps him going with this project and that is the complete and total trust in God and his provision over what he felt lead to do in by looking a page in a magazine of seven teens with a troubled
Joseph makes David explain what he said was wrong and then made the whole family pray. One small point that David made, made his father react in such a way shows how religious joseph stern is and how closely he follows the laws. When joseph reacts this way to one small thing a person says, it can indicate or hint at how he would react if he found out about the fact that Petra and David can think shape, and what the consequences would be if he ever found out their secret. This is why David and Petra must take precaution because of the fact that their father is set in stone with his beliefs and that religious fanaticism can influence a person and have no other sympathy for family or anyone if they are not the true image of
This clearly shows that his morals on that sort of thing are probably not the best. For example, in the beginning of this movie he hacks into his school’s computer to change his grades. Same thing for his friend Jennifer. She came over to his house after and eventually changed her grades also. At first she was totally opposed to it. At that moment she believed that deceiving and lying was wrong. But once she thought it about it more she changed her mind. Jennifer went back to David and asked him to change them. The bible says in James 4:17, ‘’ So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin’’ Jennifer and David knew it was wrong to hack into the computers to cheat, but taking the easy way out seems right. In their minds doing this will make it easier on them so what they are doing is justified. But in many other people’s minds taking the easy way out is bad because you aren’t learning what you should and college and adult life will be difficult. It’s ok to make things easier now and then, but when it all comes down to it we need to put in some hard to become more responsible. Even though sometimes we may fail we can learn from our
the things beyond his surrounding. He also gave David the confidence he needed to accept his
The passage I selected, 1 Samuel 1:28, tells the story of the birth of Samuel and begins with a story about Samuel’s mother, Hannah, who prays for a child during the family’s annual pilgrimage to worship at Shiloh. Eli, the priest at Shiloh, hears her prayer and tells Hannah that her prayer will be answered. Hannah promises the Lord that if she is granted a child, she will return him to the Lord and his life will be dedicated to the Lord’s work. The birth of Samuel was the first step in Gods plan to give Israel deliverance from their Philistine enemies. Samuel evolves as an important figure in telling the story of the Israelites’ move from the judges’ leadership to the establishment of a kingship.
God spoke to David through Nathan the Prophet. While David was a man after God's own heart he still was not perfect. In 2 Samuel 11 David saw Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, bathing and invited her over. David and Bathsheba broke the boundaries of Bathsheba's marriage. While trying to cover up his
David was a member of the tribe of Judah and a part of the Messianic prophecy. David loved the Lord so much. In fact, when he defeated Goliath, he was not prideful at all. He did it for the Lord and in the name of the Lord. He knew that God helped him defeat Goliath. He gave God ALL the glory. David also proved that he was different by obeying the Lord’s commandments. It speaks in 1 Samuel 24 that David had plenty of opportunities to kill Saul, but he did not. Now, David was not perfect. However, when he made mistakes he asked for forgiveness and he showed the true heart of a person who had done something wrong and was really sorry for what he had done. This is something Saul did not do.
I don’t believe there is anywhere in this book that David shows the inability to let go of his desire to help his son as an unhealthy practice. He does show his inability to watch his son throw his life away. He is very active in helping his son.
Firstly, David believed that he needed to get his butt kicked and do things he didn’t want to do. David wanted to do this because he was proving to himself and others that he was not that same little boy anymore. For example, Picasso Basquiat, YouTube contributor, discovered in David’s interview that one day when David came home from work that he saw Navy Seals on the TV. This inspired him to join the Navy. Therefore, even though David hated running, jumping out of air planes and shooting guns he still joined to better himself. Secondly, David was always brutally honest with himself. For instance, Basquiat explained that David had struggled with obesity and many times he weighted over three hundred pounds, but before David joined the Navy he lost over 100 pounds in two months. Thus, David told himself he was fat and decided he was going to change that. Thirdly, David never forgot all his struggles or let them hold him back. For example, Basquiat found out that David created what he called a cookie jar in his mind. This cookie jar consists of all David’s struggles and achievements. So when David is struggling he just stops for a second, looks in his cookie jar and this motivates him. For all these reasons, David is truly a master of self-improvement as well as pushing his
-David and Bathsheba narrative - some of the causes and effects of adultery and deceit. The story illustrates and brings out some of the implications of the Sixth Commandment (murder), Seventh (adultery), Ninth (false witness), and Tenth (covetousness), among other things.