WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.279 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:14.439 We're going to get down to business. 5 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:16.199 We are because we have a big chapter. 6 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:17.039 It's a big one. 7 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:20.039 But before we do that, we're going to launch into 8 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:24.199 one of our favorite segments, which is the Dead Joe competition. 9 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:27.000 Well maybe that maybe that should be the intro. We 10 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:27.960 should always just say. 11 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:32.759 It in joke. Competition. That's terrible. 12 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:37.840 Well, these are super important to us personally, yes, being dads, Yes, yes. 13 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:41.240 Okay, I'll go first. Okay, we have five each. I've 14 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.359 been called a computer. It has nothing to do with 15 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:46.560 my intelligence. I go to sleep if I if I'm 16 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.960 left unattended for fifteen minutes. 17 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.320 Okay, that's not bad. Well that's all right. There you go. 18 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:57.600 How do you make the number one disappear? Uh? Just 19 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:58.600 add a G and it's. 20 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:04.319 Gone, Oh my goodness, G in front of it. 21 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.760 In front of one one? Yes, and yeah G. And 22 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:08.879 then it's not one anymore. It's gone when. 23 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.079 It says added G. I was picturing adding a G 24 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:11.599 at the end. 25 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.840 Oh yes, yeah, so I was like what, Yeah, that 26 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:15.439 was a thinker. 27 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:16.159 Yeah, that was a thing. 28 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.359 And then I said number one, not just one, so 29 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:20.159 you're thinking, yes, number. 30 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.680 And then also it's a reading thing. 31 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:25.519 Yeah, did we just take forty five seconds? Bare joke? 32 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.640 Here we go. Number two. Just so everyone's clear, I'm 33 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:35.400 gonna put my glasses on just like that. 34 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:37.719 So every I'm gonna steal that one. 35 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:38.319 That was really good. 36 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.519 Yeah, my pet frog broke his leg this morning. He's 37 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:42.359 very unhappy. 38 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.680 Oh that's really rough. It's so rough. 39 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:47.120 It's good. 40 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.439 Number three if laziness. We're an Olympic sport. I'd made 41 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:54.680 sure I came in fourth, just so I wouldn't have 42 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:55.680 to walk up to the podium. 43 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:03.239 Okay, okay, a blind man walks into a bar and 44 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:08.080 then a table, then a chair. That was terrible. Did 45 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:10.319 she just make me read like a blind man? 46 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.319 Joke? Yeah? No, that, but you made fun of a 47 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:12.800 blind man. 48 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:14.439 I didn't make fun of him. I just read what 49 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:17.520 was given me. She didn't even pre read these she 50 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:22.240 made you. Oh no al ready, No, please, if you're mad, 51 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:24.919 send a send a mad email at to sezar Ba 52 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:26.199 at the bible guys dot. 53 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.479 Com or desiree. All right, there, we go. 54 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:33.719 Number four, What weighs more a gallon of water or 55 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:38.000 a gallon of butane? A gallon of water because butane 56 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:44.960 is a lighter fluid. Oh no, oh no, that's terrible, terrible. 57 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:46.960 My wife just told me to put the toilet seat down. 58 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:48.919 I don't know why I was carrying it around in 59 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:49.599 the first place. 60 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:57.039 That one, I like that one. It was good. Okay, 61 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:58.000 all right, here we go. 62 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.520 What do you call the pink fleshy bits between shark's teeth? 63 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:04.400 I don't know. 64 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.599 Slow swimmers? 65 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:08.960 Slow swimmers? 66 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.280 Okay, as if a fast swimmer could outswim a shark, 67 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:13.039 that's right, it's. 68 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.800 Not going to happen. I just saw my wife trip 69 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.280 over and drop a basket of clothes she just ironed. 70 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:22.840 I watched it all unfold. Oh that was a rough one. 71 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:24.960 Yeah, well it's a clever It is clever. 72 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.159 I watched it all unfold. 73 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.560 Yes, the event and the basket. 74 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:30.159 Yes. 75 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:33.759 Hey, By the way, I just realized something. A faster 76 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.159 swimmer doesn't need to outswim a shark. He just needs 77 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:37.319 to outswim the person next time. 78 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:37.879 That's correct. 79 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:42.159 Yeah, okay, I had had to throw that swimmer. I 80 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:43.400 used to be used to be. 81 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.120 I'd say I'm probably adequate for a person of my 82 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.319 age at this point. But you know, I get that 83 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:52.520 rotator cuff thing, I get that bulging disc spine thing. 84 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.360 So you're saying there's a chance, you're saying. 85 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.159 There's a chance. I'm saying there's a chance anybody could 86 00:03:58.159 --> 00:03:58.360 beat me. 87 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:00.520 Yeah, I'm saying, well, you got a bad you got 88 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:02.960 bad neck, you got bad shoulders. 89 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.840 Now, based on my trainer and based on me working out, 90 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.400 I would guess that I could swim just fine and fast. 91 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:14.479 Yeah yeah, Yeah, My guess is I could do that. 92 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:19.560 Okay, well I'm gonna so then, but sharks coming after us. 93 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.839 I just need to pop your really hard in the 94 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.560 neck and ye chop you on the neck, pop you 95 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:25.160 on the shoulder. 96 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:32.759 It actually work, It would actually work. Okay, it's horrible, 97 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:38.279 What a horrible thought. Oh yeah, just sitting there meeting 98 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:39.560 that's horrible. 99 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:40.279 Give me a chance. 100 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:42.360 Okay, all right, So we're. 101 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:45.519 Going to dive right into the one of the most 102 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.759 famous stories of David's life. I would say the most famous, 103 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:51.920 obviously is David Goliath, and I would say the second 104 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.000 most famous, I would think would be this story, which 105 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:55.920 is David and Besheba. 106 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.680 Oh yeah, I did this before, back, you know, back 107 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:03.519 when I think, uh, you know, thirty years ago, forty 108 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.439 years ago. I think it generally society was a little 109 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.800 bit more biblical literate, biblically literate with regard to the stories. 110 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:11.959 Of the life. They were sure they were. 111 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.959 Now a lot of people don't know who Samson was. 112 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.279 They don't know, right, you have to explain things more so, 113 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:22.759 I can't remember. Probably twenty five or thirty years ago. 114 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.639 I did a thing, and I asked people, just say 115 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:28.879 the first thing that comes to your mind when I 116 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.800 say and I said Samson, and and people said Delilah, 117 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.920 And I said David, and and it was Goliath first, 118 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.639 Bestieva second. Yeah, yeah, And it was that fast, right, 119 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:44.360 So yep there, yeah, all right, So here we are, 120 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:46.720 we're going to read about David Beesheba today. David was 121 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.639 a great king, but he was also human, and he 122 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:54.040 made terrible mistakes and committed terrible sins. And so it 123 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:57.399 says here in Second Samuel, chapter eleven, verse one, in 124 00:05:57.480 --> 00:05:59.959 the spring of the year, when kings normally go out 125 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.199 to war, David sent joeab and the Israelite army to 126 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.439 fight the Ammonites. They destroyed the Ammonite army and laid 127 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:10.319 siege to the city of Rabah. However, David stayed behind 128 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.240 in Jerusalem. Late one afternoon after his midday rest, David 129 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:16.279 got out of bed and was walking on the roof 130 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:18.560 of the palace. As he looked out over the city, 131 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.720 he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath. 132 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.199 He sent someone to find out who she was, and 133 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.120 he was told she's Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and 134 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:31.279 the wife of Uriah the Hittite. Then David sent messengers 135 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.199 to get her, and when she came to the palace, 136 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.240 he slept with her. She had just completed the purification 137 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.720 rights after having her menstrual period, and then she returned home. Later, 138 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.959 when Sheba discovered that she was pregnant, he sent David 139 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.639 a message saying I'm pregnant. Then David sent word to 140 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.680 Joeab send me Uriah the Hittite, so Joeb sent him 141 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:53.360 to David. When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab 142 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.199 and the army were getting along and how the war 143 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:57.639 was progressing, and then he told Urai, go on home 144 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.319 and relax. David even sent a gift to your Yah 145 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.040 after he'd left the palace, but Uriah didn't go home. 146 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.040 He slept that night at the palace entrance with the 147 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:08.319 king's palace guard. When David heard that Uriah had not 148 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.759 gone home, he summoned him and asked, what's the matter. 149 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:12.639 Why didn't you go home last night after being away 150 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.000 for so long? And Yourbiah replied, the ark and the 151 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:19.199 armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents, and 152 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.279 Joe Ab and my master's men are camping in the 153 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:24.480 open fields. How could I go home to whine and 154 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.879 dine and sleep with my wife? I swear that I 155 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.720 would never do such a thing. Well, stay here today, 156 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.720 David told him, and tomorrow you may return to the army. 157 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:35.120 So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next. 158 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:38.120 Then David invited him to dinner and got him drunk, 159 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:40.199 but even then he couldn't get Urrio to go home 160 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:43.000 to his wife again. He slept at the palace entrance 161 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.240 with the King's palace guard in the spring of the 162 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:50.240 year when King's ope, I'm reading it again, that's the 163 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:50.680 same one. 164 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.079 Oh yeah, so I just skipped down to it. 165 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.800 Yeah yeah, yeah. So then in verse fourteen it says, 166 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.560 So the next morning, David wrote a letter to joe 167 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.839 Ab and gave it to Uriah to deliver. Instructed joe 168 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.360 Ab stationed Uriah in the front, on the front lines 169 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.759 where the battle is fiercest, and then pull back so 170 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.680 that he will be killed. So Joeab assigned Uriah to 171 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:10.519 a spot close to the city wall, where he knew 172 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.920 the enemy's strongest men were fighting. And when the enemy 173 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:14.959 soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the 174 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.600 hit Tite was killed, along with several other Israelite soldiers. 175 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.199 Then Joeab sent a battle report to David. He told 176 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:22.839 his messenger to put all of the news of the 177 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:24.839 battle to the king, but he might get angry and 178 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.240 ask why did the troops go so close to the city. 179 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:31.240 They didn't they know there would be shooting from the walls. 180 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:34.240 Wasn't a Bimelek son of Gibeon killed that thebez by 181 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:35.840 a woman who threw a millstone down on him from 182 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.039 the wall. Why would you get so close to the 183 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.679 wall and tell him? Eurya the hit Tite was killed too. 184 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.080 So the messenger went to Jerusalem and gave a complete 185 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:46.039 report to David and the enemy came out against us 186 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.240 in the fields, and he said, and as we chased 187 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:50.919 them back to the city gate, the archers on the 188 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:52.639 wall shot arrows at us, and some of the king's 189 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:57.039 men were killed, including Eurya. The hit tite. Well, tell 190 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.200 Joe ab not to be discouraged. David said, the sword 191 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:02.720 devours this one today and that one tomorrow. Quite harder 192 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:05.399 next time, and conquer the city. When you Riya's wife 193 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:07.559 heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 194 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:09.960 When the period of morning was over, David sent for 195 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:12.080 her and brought her to the palace, and she became 196 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:14.720 one of his wives. Then she gave birth to a son. 197 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.320 But the lord was displeased with what David had done. 198 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:20.120 You think, yeah, it's pretty horrible. 199 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.440 Yeah, so there's the snowball effect of sin. 200 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.360 So it starts with you know, people always say it 201 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.960 starts with the lust, you know, where David was watching 202 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.480 her take a bath, you know, But that's not really 203 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:32.440 where it started. 204 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:32.440 Did it. 205 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:34.840 No, So it started way out ahead of that. 206 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.480 Yeah, Well, it started when it said there's a time 207 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.919 when king should go off to war, which is where 208 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:42.000 you started to read. And by the way, that little 209 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.679 hiccup in the middle of the passage was we're reading 210 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:48.679 from the chronological Bible, and it started in first Chronicles twenty. 211 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:52.679 It inserted that in there because these are the same stories. Oftentimes, 212 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:57.120 Chronicles and two Samuel record the same thing. So anyway, 213 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.000 so yeah, it's a time when kings should be off 214 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.639 at war. So the Bible literally includes the fact that 215 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:05.879 David was at home when king should be at war. 216 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:09.679 So that's really what the first that's really where it began. 217 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:14.120 In other words, David was out you could argue and 218 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:17.919 say comparably outside of God's will because he's the leader 219 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.600 of the nation, he's the leader of the army, and 220 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:24.320 you know, he's representing God's agenda, and yet he should 221 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:25.200 be at war and he's not. 222 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:30.559 And we didn't cover the fact that we skipped over 223 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:34.480 the passage where God, after David unified the whole nation, 224 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.639 God told him, now go finish the job and destroy 225 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.960 all of the enemies of God's people, destroy them all. 226 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.360 So it was David's job. It wasn't just a thing 227 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.840 that David was doing because he's a mean guy. It 228 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.080 was his job that God gave him. Remember the other 229 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.559 day we talked about how David's told God, God, I 230 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:53.159 want to build you a temple. I want to build 231 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.200 you a building where a house, because I'm living in 232 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.679 a palace. And God said, no, David, I'm going to 233 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:59.679 bless you because you want to bless me. But what 234 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:01.639 we did covers the fact that God said, no, your 235 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:03.679 job is not to build me a temple. I'll let 236 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.639 your son do it. Your job is to go and 237 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:08.960 continue to finish wiping out the enemies. And he said, 238 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:10.639 because you have blood on your hands, I don't want 239 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:12.159 you to be in the one building my temple, right, 240 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:15.120 but your job is to be that bloody man. Your 241 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.679 job is to be the one who wipes out the 242 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:21.679 enemies of God in God's people. And so it wasn't 243 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.120 like this was something that, oh, it's just another Saturday, 244 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.320 you know, all the all the all the guys are 245 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.200 going out and doing it. I should do it too. Nah, 246 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.200 I'm tired. I want to stay home. It's it's not 247 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.399 a pick up softball game, right, this is This was 248 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.080 his job. And then it was that time of the 249 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:36.879 year it talks about, you know, it's the beginning of 250 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:38.919 the year. This is This would have been April or 251 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:43.480 March or April. The Hebrew calendar kind of the beginning 252 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:45.879 of the year changes a little bit, but it would 253 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:49.679 in March or April, planting would have been done and 254 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.080 the rains were over, so now it would have been 255 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:55.000 dry enough that typically the time that you would be 256 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:58.200 most in danger in a kingdom would be sometime right 257 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:00.960 after the planting, and then the next time that you'd 258 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.399 be really in danger is rate about harvest time, and 259 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.080 so you can count in the fact that your enemies 260 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.600 are probably on the war path. They're on the way, 261 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:13.600 and so a good king oftentimes would preemptively take his 262 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.919 bigger army and try to catch the enemy army heading 263 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.679 towards the attack. So bring the attack to them instead 264 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:21.320 of letting them come all the way and put your 265 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:23.879 cities under siege. That was the idea. So when it 266 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:25.919 says it was about that. So it says in two 267 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.679 Samuel eleven, in the spring of the year, when kings 268 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.679 normally go out to war, David sends Joe Ab, his 269 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:33.559 top general, say hey, you go do it. You know, 270 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:35.879 he's the greatest warrior in the history of Israel. But 271 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:38.320 he sends Joe Ab, you know, a surrogate to do 272 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:38.840 it for him. 273 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:42.799 So many people probably wonder, you know, how was David 274 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:44.000 able to see Bethsheba. 275 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:46.039 This is just a practical answer. 276 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:48.440 His palace would have been higher, his palace would have 277 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.320 been grander, his palace would have been on a hill. 278 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:54.919 And then also acknowledging the fact that Bethsheba was wife 279 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:57.279 to your ride, the Hittite, who was also in the army. 280 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:02.840 But because Thatsheba's house was right next to David's, it's 281 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:05.480 also an indicator that he was a very prominent man. 282 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.440 He was a prominent man in the war, because you know, 283 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.279 if you live next to the palace, then you know 284 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:13.799 it's not going to be a shack, it's going to 285 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.440 be a prominent structure, right and. 286 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:19.039 So and David and so the city of Jerusalem, the 287 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:20.799 city of David, the part that he took from the 288 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.960 Jebi sites, is on a slanted part of what is 289 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.519 now modern Jerusalem. You've been to the City of David 290 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.399 part of right, and so the palace was at the 291 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:34.399 top of that hill and everything in the city was 292 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:34.879 below him. 293 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:35.840 And it's smaller than you think. 294 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:38.919 Yeah, yeah, it's not very big. It's a few hundred 295 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.080 yards wide and less than a mile long. Yeah, wouldn't 296 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:44.480 you say maybe a half mile long? 297 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:45.000 Yeah? 298 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:47.120 Yeah, I would, I would agree with that, yeah, and 299 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.720 the and so yeah, he's so he's elevated already because 300 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.000 that's where you build palaces on top of hills. And 301 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.759 then and he's looking down, so he sees bit about 302 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.519 and then what does he do The sin of him 303 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:00.440 not being at war, you know, when he's should be 304 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.840 outside of God's will leads to being somewhere. 305 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:04.399 Where he shouldn't be. 306 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.159 And then that leads to him saying, oh, I'm gonna 307 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:10.759 go ahead and pursue that which I desire, knowing that 308 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.919 it's wrong. And then you know, he calls Bevan and then. 309 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:14.279 What does he do. 310 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:19.279 He leverages his position. So that's a dangerous thing. That's 311 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.759 a warning against all spiritual leaders, right when you when 312 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.720 you are able to leverage your influence to get what 313 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:28.480 you want. It doesn't have to be a sexual sin. 314 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:30.279 It could be any sin. It could be a money 315 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.600 sent right, you know, it could be it could be 316 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:37.759 anything where if you're a leader in a position of 317 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.480 a nonprofit organization and the heck listen, this applies to 318 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:46.600 bosses leveraging their influence, right, And so anyway, Well. 319 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:48.639 The Bible pretty much sums it up that there's only 320 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.480 three kinds of sins. The lust of the eyes, the 321 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:52.360 lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Right, 322 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:56.120 so you're looking at at at lust is one of 323 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:01.360 the things that we leverage our power for. It's stuff money, 324 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.200 We try to leverage our power forward to get get around. 325 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.399 And then the pride of life is is fame. Right, 326 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.480 So those are the pretty much those are the three sins. Yeah, 327 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:12.519 everything falls into those those categories. 328 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:13.960 And I would say also the pride of life and 329 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:18.120 my you could probably include some self selfish driven things 330 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.519 as well, right, and self promoting, self gaining, right, yes, yeah, 331 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.759 fame and so anyway, so then then after then, after that, 332 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.120 then what happens is then he acts on his desire, 333 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:33.240 he forces Bethsheba, uh, based on his influence. You know Bethsheba. 334 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.320 We were just left to assume that she probably has 335 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:37.840 no choice. Now she could have been a co conspirator 336 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:38.080 in it. 337 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:39.000 Yeah. 338 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.159 Well, when when people come and give David bad news, 339 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:45.440 he kills them, right, so, so just bad news. Right, 340 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:47.639 So when she gives him the bad news of no, 341 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:50.519 I'm not sleeping with you, what would happen, right, So 342 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.000 this was a rape. Yeah, yeah, there's no other way 343 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.559 around it. Sometimes people point, well, she was taking a 344 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.200 bath on the roof. Everybody took baths on the roof, right, 345 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.240 They didn't have bathrooms and showers, and so that would 346 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:05.120 have been the place, a place that there was an 347 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:07.159 expectation that you had a certain amount of privacy on 348 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:10.360 the roof of your home, right. And so she wasn't 349 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.320 out there, I don't believe trying to tempt David. She 350 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.960 was just doing what you do. And you're supposed to 351 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:16.879 look away. And a lot of those cultures, you know, 352 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.440 you and I've been in places before where where their 353 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:26.600 sense of modesty is a little bit more flexible than ours. 354 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.440 And and and so the idea where you know, I've 355 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.919 been in villages before where you know, say, nursing a 356 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:36.720 baby openly or whatever they're the idea is that the 357 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:39.799 village just kind of looks away, right, is different than 358 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.240 and and there's kind of a growing expectation in America 359 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.440 that way. But for the most part, culturally, it's still 360 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:49.679 a surprise. Yeah, yeah, it's still a surprise. But in 361 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:51.519 a lot of the a lot of the developing places 362 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:53.600 we've been to. That's just the thing, and you just 363 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:55.159 you look away. That's you're supposed to do. And so 364 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.120 the idea would be that you have a right to 365 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.679 privacy on your property and others should away. And David 366 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:01.200 chose not to. 367 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:03.799 When we were all in Kenya, they weren't trying to 368 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.119 be immodest to look at us because of nakedness. 369 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:09.799 It was because we were white as ghosts, right right right, 370 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:10.720 very curious and so. 371 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:12.440 Like we would take our shirts off and they would 372 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.599 just you know, like gawk at us. And we had 373 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.000 this room where there was like little uh like spaces 374 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.680 in between the walls and these and these these little 375 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:21.359 kids would. 376 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:23.000 Look they were gawking. They were all lined up in 377 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:24.119 gawking watching. 378 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.519 Us change and and and it was and I realized 379 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:29.519 very very quickly because then they made comments and said 380 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:30.279 we as ghosts. 381 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.559 We had little boys, me and Bill, our friend Bill, 382 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:36.839 and they grabbed our short that we were they thought 383 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.559 we were ghosts, and they grabbed our shorts to check 384 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:40.640 and see if we were really men. Just they looked 385 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:44.160 in our shorts to see if we were men. Yeah, 386 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.079 So a very different view than than the way that 387 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.279 you know, our sense of modesty. So there's I don't 388 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.960 think that there's any indication that Beshiba was doing anything inappropriate. Yeah, 389 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:55.759 but David certainly was. He was on the prowl, you know, 390 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.759 he was. He was probably bored with being a successful warrior. 391 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:02.519 He's a little tired. Maybe his joints are hurting. He's 392 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:07.240 got a sore necker, so he has rotator cuffs hurting, right, 393 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:09.319 and he decides, hey, you know, I want to stay home. 394 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:10.920 I just I don't want to go out today. And 395 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:13.839 they're going to Aman, by the way, so Rama Raba. 396 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:15.960 I wonder if he was a good swimmer at this time. 397 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:23.000 Rabba is modern day Aman, Jordan. Oh, and you can 398 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.039 see Jerusalem from Aman, which is pretty amazing at nighttime, 399 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.319 the lights of Jerusalem you can see from a man. 400 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.440 It's not very far. And so just across the Jordan 401 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:36.519