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2 Samuel 12:18-31 (ESV)

18) On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.”

19) But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”

20) Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

21) Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”

22) He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

23) But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

24) Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him

25) and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

26) Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.

27) And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.

28) Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.”

29) So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.

30) And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.

31) And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 12:15-18 (ESV)

15) Then Nathan went to his house. ​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​And the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he became sick.

16) David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

17) And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

18) On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.”

2 Samuel 12:7-15 (ESV)

7) Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

8) And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.

9) Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

10) Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

11) Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

12) For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”

13) 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.

14) Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child who is born to you shall die.”

15) Then Nathan went to his house. ​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​And the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he became sick.

This is Part II of Scott's Sunday Courtship series.

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2 Samuel 12:1-6 (ESV)

1) And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.

2) The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

3) but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

4) Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

5) Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,

6) and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”

Romans 2:17-23 (ESV)

17) But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

18) and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;

19) and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

20) an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth-

21) you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

22) You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

23) You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.

This is Part I of Scott's Sunday Courtship series.

Comments shared and questions asked by the audience are not picked up on microphone, therefore some parts of this study are very quiet. We are working on a solution to this and hope to resolve it soon!

6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered. 8 And David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah departed from the king’s house, and a gift of food from the king followed him. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10 So when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”

11 And Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”

12 Then David said to Uriah, “Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

14 In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.” 16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war, 19 and charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king, 20 if it happens that the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you: ‘Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth?[a] Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

22 So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him. 23 And the messenger said to David, “Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate. 24 The archers shot from the wall at your servants; and some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”

25 Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.’ So encourage him.”

26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27 And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

Genesis 2:1-3:24 (ESV) 1) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2) And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3) So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. 4) These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. 5) When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up-for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6) and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground- 7) then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8) And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9) And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10) A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11) The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12) And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13) The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14) And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15) The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17) but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” 18) Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19) Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20) The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 21) So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22) And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23) Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24) Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25) And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. 1) Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2) And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3) but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4) But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5) For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6) So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7) Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. 8) And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9) But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10) And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11) He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12) The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13) Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 14) The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15) I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” 16) To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” 17) And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18) thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19) By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” 20) The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 21) And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. 22) Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever-” 23) therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24) He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

2 Samuel 10:15-11:5 (ESV)

15) But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.

16) And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

17) And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him.

18) And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.

19) And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore.

2 Samuel 11

1) In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

2) It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

3) And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

4) So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

5) And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”

This is Part 5 of Scott's Marriage series.

Comments shared and questions asked by the audience are not picked up on microphone, therefore some parts of this study are very quiet. We are working on a solution to this and hope to resolve it soon!

1 Peter 3:2-6 2) when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 3) Do not let your adorning be external-the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear- 4) but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. 5) For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, 6) as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.