Day 129 – 2 Samuel 12:10-12

Scripture Review

2 Samuel 12:10-12

"Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife."

(2 Samuel 12:10)

The judgment of God now comes upon David. "Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house."

This tells me that David used the sword to remove Uriah, and now the sword will remain close to David's own house. What David brought upon another man's house will now cast a shadow over his own. If you remember In verse 9, David despised the commandment of the LORD. Here God says, "because thou hast despised me." That is the root of it all. To despise God's commandment is to despise God. I cannot say, "I love the LORD," while treating His word like it does not matter. When I choose my will over God's Word, I am not dealing with a commandment only. I am dealing with the Lord Himself. Obedience is personal. Disobedience is personal too.

Scripture also reveals David "hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife." God keeps Uriah's name attached to Bathsheba. The court may call her David's wife now, but the LORD keeps reminding David whose wife she was when he took her.

"Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun."

(2 Samuel 12:11)

The LORD says, "Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house." The trouble will not only come from outside enemies. It will rise from within David's own house. David's private sin is going to have household consequences. Sin always wants us to believe it can be contained.

Then the LORD says, "I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour." David took another man's wife secretly. The LORD says public shame will come upon David in a way that answers the nature of his sin. And the LORD adds, "in the sight of this sun." David did his evil under cover. God says the judgment will not be hidden in the dark. It will be exposed in daylight. Sin may be hidden from the church, hidden from family, hidden from friends, hidden behind good words and normal routines, but it is not hidden from God. And if the LORD chooses to bring a matter into the light, no man can keep it buried.

"For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun."

(2 Samuel 12:12)

The LORD continues to make His judgement plainly. "For thou didst it secretly." The rooftop look became a private inquiry. The private inquiry became a secret summons. The secret sin became a hidden pregnancy. The hidden pregnancy became a plan with Uriah. The failed plan became a sealed letter. The sealed letter became a battlefield death. Then Bathsheba was brought into David's house, and it looked as though the whole matter could be closed.

But the LORD says, "I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun." David's sin has found him out before God already, and now the LORD declares that what was hidden will not remain hidden. A heart after God must not be more afraid of exposure than of sin itself. Exposure may be painful, but sin is the poison.