Week 4: King David Sins
Title: King David Sins
Objective:
- Sin and what leads to it
- Sin and how it snowballs
- Sin and its consequences
- No one is above sin
- David's strength is in his repentance
- "For He bruises, but He binds up; He wounds, but His hands make whole" Job 5:18
Resources:
Reading:
- General
- 2 Samuel 11-12
- Specific
- Read and explain 2 Samuel 11 (David's sin)
- Read and explain 2 Samuel 12:1-15 (David's confession)
- Read and explain 2 Samuel 12:16-25 (One son dies, another is born)
- Summarize 2 Samuel 12:26-31 (The fight against Rabbah)
Key verse(s):
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"So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” and Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. " 2 Samuel 12:13
Comments:
Review questions:
- How did Uriah prove that he was faithful to the Lord and to his master, David?
- Why did David ask Joab to set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting?
- How did David respond to Nathan’s story?
- How did God punish David for his sin with Uriah’s wife?
- What was David’s mistake that the Lord hated the most?
- What is the general consequence of trying to hide sin? Prove this from this chapter?
- What was God’s punishment to David?
- How did David explain to his servants what he did before and after the death of his son from
Bathsheba?
Homework:
- Bathsheba was the wife of: a) Joab b) Benaiah c) Abishai d) Uriah
- What happened to Uriah?
a) David had him killed b) David had him promoted c) he escaped d) he became a commander - What became of David’s first son with Bathsheba?
a) he became king b) he died while young c) he was a leper d) he was chief of the army - Which prophet condemned David? a) Gad b) Michah c) Nathan d) Samuel
- What did David do to Bathsheba after the death of her husband?
- What was God’s reaction to what David did with Bathsheba and Uriah?
- Who sent Nathan to David?
- What happened to the child that was born to David from Uriah’s wife?