2 Samuel 11: David Commits Adultery with Bathsheba
1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to
battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged
the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his
couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from
the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. 3 David sent someone to
inquire about the woman. It was reported, “This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam,
the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 So David sent messengers to get her, and she
came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her
period.) Then she returned to her house. 5 The woman conceived; and she sent
and told David, “I am pregnant.”
6 So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And
Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and
the people fared, and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go
down to your house, and wash your feet.” Uriah went out of the king’s house,
and there followed him a present from the king. 9 But Uriah slept at the
entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go
down to his house. 10 When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his
house,” David said to Uriah, “You have just come from a journey. Why did you
not go down to your house?”
13 David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made
him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants
of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
David Has Uriah Killed
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by
the hand of Uriah. 15 In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of
the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck
down and die.” 16 As Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the
place where he knew there were valiant warriors. 17 The men of the city came
out and fought with Joab; and some of the servants of David among the people
fell. Uriah the Hittite was killed as well.
Psalm 51: 3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever
before me.
4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned,
and done what is evil
in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence
and blameless when you
pass judgment.
5 Indeed, I was born guilty,
a sinner when my mother conceived me.
6 You desire truth in the inward being;[a]
therefore teach me
wisdom in my secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall
be whiter than snow.
Footnotes:
a. Psalm 51:6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and
right[a] spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from your presence,
and do not take your
holy spirit from me.
Footnotes:
a. Psalm 51:10 Or steadfast
Mark 4: The Parable of the Growing Seed
26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would
scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the
seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of
itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 But
when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest
has come.”
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
30 He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God,
or what parable will we use for it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when
sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32 yet when it
is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth
large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
The Use of Parables
33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they
were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he
explained everything in private to his disciples.
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