Bible Study-2 Sa.13 “This thing called Love”

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“Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.”

What is love an abstract concept without any frame of reference to anything tangible. In science we explain law of attraction that draws an object to its centre. Thus we have planets orbiting about the sun in our Milky Way. Its path is not a circle but an ellipse and peculiarity of it that distinguishes it from a circle is that there are focii. Rather than fo into its properties it shall suffice for our discussion that God is Love which from Father and Son positions hold planetary orbital path inviolate.

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Sonto bethe propitiation for our sins(1 John 4:10)”. God…

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Bible Study-2 Sa.12:25-29 “Behold I make all things new”

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The superscription is from the Book of the Revelation. It follows the verse, “For the former things are passed away(Re.21:4-5)”. God deals with David precisely as though he was cleansed of former things and he is set down as a man after his own heart. He is thus a double for the Son.”If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive usoursins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness(John 1:9)”.

And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and theLordloved him./And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of theLord.”

Significant is the name give by God and it is a new name. It is the promise God gives to every overcomer as David now qualifies as…

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Bible Study-2 Sa.12:8-31 “Open and Shut”

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David sinned in secret but consequences of his deeds opens chains of event which results in civil war and paves way for much more. The immediate effect of it was in the death of the son. David may legitimize his illicit union before all Israel by marriage but God does not let them go off the hook. “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:(Nu.23:19).

Lust of the flesh deceived David and in his act he proved the wisdom of the Book of Proverbs.”Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant(Pr.9:17).Nevertheless it is deceit. “Bread of deceitissweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel(Pr.20:17)”. When David confessed and put away his crime God pardons him and we read in v.13: And Nathan said unto David, TheLordalso hath put away thy…

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Bible Study-2 Sa.12:1-7 “Reverse parable”

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While we are considering parable as a literary mode the Parable of the sower is an example. Jesus spoke of sowing which for a pastoral land as Judea must be familiar. The approach is to take life experience on a leash as it were in order to draw a spiritual truth; reverse parable on the other hand is where the Holy Spirit in order to glorify the Son, places all events subservient to his purpose so the expression ‘upholding all things by the word of His power’ so when David is anointed of the Lord the purpose is that he is a stand-in for the Son who is the heir to all things “For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings(He.2:10-NKJV;He.1:3)”. An example we have…

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Bible Study-2 Sa.12:1-7 “Thou art the man”

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And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor./ The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:³ But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter./ And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. /And David’s anger was greatly…

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Bible Study-2 Sa.11:26-27 “David and Bathsheba”

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“And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband./ And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

‘But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord’.

The Spirit sets David as ‘a man after my own heart’ meaning that the shepherd-king of Israel would spiritually fill the shoes of the Good shepherd. Nathan’s parable to which we shall come anon this analogy s apt. Another verse we could rely on is from the Book of Isaiah. “His delight is in the fear of the LORD, And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, Nor decide by the hearing of His ears(Is.11:1-3). The prophet has the son of Jesse in…

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Bible Study-2 Sa. 11:1-9 “Sin lies at the door”

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“But David tarried still at Jerusalem (v.1).”

David tarrying in Jerusalem was in the fitness of things where a mighty man of warrior like Joab knew his business and he relied on his expertise. So the king sent him,” and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah’.

Jerusalem is a geographical name and it had nothing in itself to protect David from sinning. What defiles a man comes from his heart. This being the case Jerusalem is a name doubling for any other for instance Egypt, Sodom or Babylon (Re.11:8). On the other hand his heart remained the most vulnerable and having time out from an overload of work and in between awaiting reports from the battle front he had more chances of slipping up in his daily devotion. The heart is like a city, “Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman…

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Bible Study- 2 Sa.11 “Sin shall find you out”

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David’s wars with the children of Ammon were not solely as nation of Israel against the Gentile nations, but represented sins that war against the soul. Body of this death owed to the tocsin of sin of disobedience in particular. “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned(Ro.5:12-NIV)Adam’s disobedience is as represented for all as the iniquity of Amorites is deemed as representing the seven nations for which an explanation may be needed. See second para. . It is for this reason God commanded Moses not to make any covenant with them. The body that God had prepared before the worlds began, has a specific characteristic,- it carried the DNA of the Son, and the other indicated body of death representing the children of disobedience.

“When the LORD your God brings you…

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Bible Study-2 Sa.11 “Body of this death”

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The superscription is taken from this verse: “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?(Ro.7:24)” This death is specific and is not to be confused with Law or the Word which is eternal. Ps.119:89)

Death is subject to the Law of sin. Here we shall see from the life of David. His failure in this Bathsheba episode his failure sets off chains of event that one might say brought death stalking both as a consequence. Uriah the lawful husband of Bathsheba’s is very much a casualty as the first son born to the illicit union(12:18). More shall follow at its own pace of which a notable casualty would be Adonijah, another contender to the throne of David (1 Ki.2:25)

Body of this death owe to disobedience of man. When the writer to the Hebrews paraphrases from the Psalm 40 he mentions of…

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Bible Study-2 Sa. 10 “David’s wars”

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Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father.

In the manner David wanted to fulfill his obligations at home we covered in the previous chapter. He would similarly with nations friendly towards him. It is thus he sent an embassy of his servant to Hanun. His sensitivity to needs of others we shall see was taught of God.

His consciousness of being led by God helped him greatly. When he desired to build a house for God, God had already settled the matter and his response was typical of a man who scrupulously sought to do the will of the Lord God. “And now, OLordGod, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and…

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