04.24.2015 Old Testament: 2Sa 11.2–5

To read the Bible in a year, read Second Samuel 10–12 on April 24, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

David did not go out to war as he did customarily. He stayed home and saw something he should not have seen, because it led him to do things he never would have typically done,

Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child” (2 Samuel 11.2–5). 

I am not arguing that every time a man or woman looks at one another something like this will happen, but it does argue that something like this had to have a beginning.

Be careful what you place before your eyes, for it may enter the heart and once in the heart, it may turn to action.