2 Samuel 12:10-25 CSB
10 “Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hethite to be your own wife.’ 11 “This is what the LORD says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them in broad daylight. 12 “You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’ ” 13 David responded to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Then Nathan replied to David, “And the LORD has taken away your sin; you will not die. 14 “However, because you treated the LORD with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.” 15 Then Nathan went home. The LORD struck the baby that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became deathly ill. 16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground. 17 The elders of his house stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them. 18 On the seventh day the baby died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him the baby was dead. They said, “Look, while the baby was alive, we spoke to him, and he wouldn’t listen to us. So how can we tell him the baby is dead? He may do something desperate.” 19 When David saw that his servants were whispering to each other, he guessed that the baby was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the baby dead? ” “He is dead,” they replied. 20 Then David got up from the ground. He washed, anointed himself, changed his clothes, went to the LORD’s house, and worshiped. Then he went home and requested something to eat. So they served him food, and he ate. 21 His servants asked him, “Why have you done this? While the baby was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate food.” 22 He answered, “While the baby was alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’ 23 “But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I’ll go to him, but he will never return to me.” 24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba; he went to her and slept with her. She gave birth to a son and named him Solomon. The LORD loved him, 25 and he sent a message through the prophet Nathan, who named him Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
- The Diagnosis
- The Death
- The Deliverance
- One thing that resonated with me:
- One thing that challenged me:
- One thing I want to learn more about:
- One thing I will do:
Psalm 74 is a corporate lament. Prayerfully read, meditate, and note take on Psalm 74.
- Can you discern the structure of the lament?
- What is being lamented?
- What, if anything, is their hope?
Reflect
- Worship: Write down one attribute of God and worship God.
- Prayer: Pray for family who has lost a child.
- Remembrance: Remember a time when you or someone close to you lost a child. How did that event change you?
- Self-Examination: How and when do you comfort others?
A Kind Act
Plant or make something and give it to someone.
