II Samuel 10

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• II Samuel 10 Kindness Misinterpreted

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The King of Ammon Dies

• (2 Sam 101 NKJV) It happened after this that
  the king of the people of Ammon died, and Hanun
  his son reigned in his place.

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Davids Good Intentions

• (2 Sam 102 NKJV) Then David said, "I will show
  kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his
  father showed kindness to me." So David sent by
  the hand of his servants to comfort him
  concerning his father. And David's servants came
  into the land of the people of Ammon.

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Mistrust Creates Horrible Loss

• (2 Sam 103 NKJV) And the princes of the people
  of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think
  that David really honors your father because he
  has sent comforters to you? Has David not rather
  sent his servants to you to search the city, to
  spy it out, and to overthrow it?"

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Adam Clarkes Thoughts

• 2Sa 103
• Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father -
  It has been a matter of just complaint through
  all the history of mankind, that there is little
  sincerity in courts. Courtiers, especially, are
  suspicious of each other, and often mislead their
  sovereigns. They feel themselves to be insincere,
  and suspect others to be so too.

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Hanun Humiliates Davids Servants

• (2 Sam 104 NKJV) Therefore Hanun took David's
  servants, shaved off half of their beards, cut
  off their garments in the middle, at their
  buttocks, and sent them away.

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Adam Clarke

• 2Sa 104
• Shaved off the one half of their beards - The
  beard is held in high respect in the East the
  possessor considers it his greatest ornament
  often swears by it and, in matters of great
  importance, pledges it. Nothing can be more
  secure than a pledge of this kind its owner will
  redeem it at the hazard of his life.

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Adam Clarke

• 2Sa 104
• Shaved off the one half of their beards - The
  beard was never cut off but in mourning, or as a
  sign of slavery. Cutting off half of the beard
  and the clothes rendered the men ridiculous, and
  made them look like slaves what was done to
  these men was an accumulation of insult.

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David Cares for His Men

• (2 Sam 105 NKJV) When they told David, he sent
  to meet them, because the men were greatly
  ashamed. And the king said, "Wait at Jericho
  until your beards have grown, and then return."

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Adam Clarke

• 2Sa 105
• Tarry at Jericho - This city had not been rebuilt
  since the time of Joshua but there were, no
  doubt, many cottages still remaining, and larger
  dwellings also, but the walls had not been
  repaired. As it must have been comparatively a
  private place, it was proper for these men to
  tarry in, as they would not be exposed to public
  notice.

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Ammon Creates Bigger Problems

• (2 Sam 106 NKJV) When the people of Ammon saw
  that they had made themselves repulsive to David,
  the people of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of
  Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty
  thousand foot soldiers and from the king of
  Maacah one thousand men, and from Ish-Tob twelve
  thousand men.

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Beth Rehob just east of TyreAmmon between
Jerusalem Hebron
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Its War!

• (2 Sam 107 NKJV) Now when David heard of it, he
  sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.

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Its War!

• (2 Sam 108 NKJV) Then the people of Ammon came
  out and put themselves in battle array at the
  entrance of the gate. And the Syrians of Zoba,
  Beth Rehob, Ish-Tob, and Maacah were by
  themselves in the field.

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The Plan of Attack

• (2 Sam 109 NKJV) When Joab saw that the battle
  line was against him before and behind, he chose
  some of Israel's best and put them in battle
  array against the Syrians.

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The Second Battle Front

• (2 Sam 1010 NKJV) And the rest of the people he
  put under the command of Abishai his brother,
  that he might set them in battle array against
  the people of Ammon.

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The Reinforcement Plan

• (2 Sam 1011 NKJV) Then he said, "If the Syrians
  are too strong for me, then you shall help me
  but if the people of Ammon are too strong for
  you, then I will come and help you.

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Be, and Do, your best!

• (2 Sam 1012 NKJV) "Be of good courage, and let
  us be strong for our people and for the cities of
  our God. And may the LORD do what is good in His
  sight."

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Adam Clarke

• 2Sa 1012
• Be of good courage - This is a very fine military
  address, and is equal to any thing in ancient or
  modern times. Ye fight . . . for every good,
  sacred and civil for God, for your families, and
  for your country.

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Gods Will be done!

• (2 Sam 1012 NKJV) "Be of good courage, and let
  us be strong for our people and for the cities of
  our God. And may the LORD do what is good in His
  sight."

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The Battle Begins

• (2 Sam 1013 NKJV) So Joab and the people who
  were with him drew near for the battle against
  the Syrians, and they fled before him.

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A Setback for Ammon

• (2 Sam 1014 NKJV) When the people of Ammon saw
  that the Syrians were fleeing, they also fled
  before Abishai, and entered the city. So Joab
  returned from the people of Ammon and went to
  Jerusalem.

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What Now?

• (2 Sam 1015 NKJV) When the Syrians saw that
  they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered
  together.

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The Battle move across the Jordan

• (2 Sam 1016 NKJV) Then Hadadezer sent and
  brought out the Syrians who were beyond the
  River, and they came to Helam. And Shobach the
  commander of Hadadezer's army went before them.

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Red dot indicating Helam
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Gilead
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The Battle move across the Jordan

• (2 Sam 1017 NKJV) When it was told David, he
  gathered all Israel, crossed over the Jordan, and
  came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in
  battle array against David and fought with him.

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A Great loss for the Syrians

• (2 Sam 1018 NKJV) Then the Syrians fled before
  Israel and David killed seven hundred
  charioteers and forty thousand horsemen of the
  Syrians, and struck Shobach the commander of
  their army, who died there.

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Dont fight Israel

• (2 Sam 1019 NKJV) And when all the kings who
  were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were
  defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel
  and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to
  help the people of Ammon anymore.

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What a Mistake!

• A misinterpreted goodwill gesture turns into a
  terrible loss.

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What a Mistake!

• A misinterpreted goodwill gesture turns into a
  terrible loss.
• The people of Ammon and Syria take heavy
  casualties.

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What a Mistake!

• A misinterpreted goodwill gesture turns into a
  terrible loss.
• The people of Ammon and Syria take heavy
  casualties.
• The people became the servants of Israel.

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What a Mistake!

• A misinterpreted goodwill gesture turns into a
  terrible loss.
• The people of Ammon and Syria take heavy
  casualties.
• The people became the servants of Israel.
• Who knows what would have happened if it had not
  been for one very expensive mistake!

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• II Samuel 11 -- Bathsheba

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The Easy Time that ruined so much!

• (2 Sam 111 NKJV) It happened in the spring of
  the year, at the time when kings go out to
  battle, that David sent Joab and his servants
  with him, and all Israel and they destroyed the
  people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David
  remained at Jerusalem.

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At the wrong place at the wrong time

• (2 Sam 112 NKJV) Then it happened one evening
  that David arose from his bed and walked on the
  roof of the king's house. And from the roof he
  saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very
  beautiful to behold.

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Who was guilty?

• He saw a woman washing herself - How could any
  woman of delicacy expose herself where she could
  be so fully and openly viewed? Did she not know
  that she was at least in view of the kings
  terrace? Was there no design in all this? . .

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Who was guilty?

• In a Bengal town pools of water are to be seen
  everywhere, and women may be seen morning and
  evening bathing in them, and carrying water home.
  Thus David might have seen Bath-sheba, and no
  blame attach to her. -- Clarke

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Where Is This Going?

• (2 Sam 113 NKJV) So David sent and inquired
  about the woman. And someone said, "Is this not
  Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of
  Uriah the Hittite?"

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The Steps to Sin

• (1.) He enquired who she was (2Sa_113), perhaps
  intending only, if she were unmarried, to take
  her to wife, as he had taken several but, if she
  were a wife, having no design upon her. (2.) The
  corrupt desire growing more violent, though he
  was told she was a wife, and whose wife she was,
  yet he sent messengers for her, and then, it may
  be, intended only to please himself with her
  company and conversation.

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The Steps to Sin

• But, (3.) When she came he lay with her, she too
  easily consenting, because he was a great man,
  and famed for his goodness too. Surely (thinks
  she) that can be no sin which such a man as David
  is the mover of. See how the way of sin is
  down-hill when men begin to do evil they cannot
  soon stop themselves. Matthew Henry

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Lust brings forth sin!

• (2 Sam 114 NKJV) Then David sent messengers,
  and took her and she came to him, and he lay
  with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity
  and she returned to her house.

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What Now?

• (2 Sam 115 NKJV) And the woman conceived so
  she sent and told David, and said, "I am with
  child."

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David begins work on the Problem

• (2 Sam 116 NKJV) Then David sent to Joab,
  saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab
  sent Uriah to David.
• (Power has lots of privileges, but it doesnt
  cover everything.)

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A Military Briefing

• (2 Sam 117 NKJV) When Uriah had come to him,
  David asked how Joab was doing, and how the
  people were doing, and how the war prospered.

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The Cover up plan

• (2 Sam 118 NKJV) 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.

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Davids Plan is in Trouble!

• (2 Sam 119 NKJV) 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.

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What are you thinking, Uriah?

• (2 Sam 1110 NKJV) 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?"

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Uriah more noble than David

• (2 Sam 1111 NKJV) 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."

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What Now?

• (2 Sam 1112 NKJV) 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.

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Ill Get Him Drunk -- But it doesnt work

• (2 Sam 1113 NKJV) 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.

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A Terrible Next Step

• (2 Sam 1114 NKJV) In the morning it happened
  that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by
  the hand of Uriah.

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Uriahs Death Sentence

• (2 Sam 1115 NKJV) 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."

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Joab Goes along(Power corrupts, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.)

• (2 Sam 1116 NKJV) So it was, while Joab
  besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a
  place where he knew there were valiant men.

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Uriah is Killed

• (2 Sam 1117 NKJV) 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.

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Message to David

• (2 Sam 1118-19 NKJV) 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,

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Explaining a Bad Plan

• (2 Sam 1120 NKJV) 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?

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Explaining a Bad Plan

• (2 Sam 1121 NKJV) 'Who struck Abimelech the son
  of Jerubbesheth? 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.'"

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The Message to David

• (2 Sam 1122-23 NKJV) 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.

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The Main Message

• (2 Sam 1124 NKJV) "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."

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Davids Condolences

• (2 Sam 1125 NKJV) 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."

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Adam Clarkes Comment

• 2Sa 1125
• The sword devoureth one as well as another - What
  abominable hypocrisy was here! He well knew that
  Uriahs death was no chance-medley he was by his
  own order thrust on the edge of the sword.

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Bathsheba is given the News

• (2 Sam 1126 NKJV) When the wife of Uriah heard
  that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for
  her husband.

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David Marries Bathsheba

• (2 Sam 1127 NKJV) 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.

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All Finished? Not Quite!

• (2 Sam 1127 NKJV) . . . But the thing that
  David had done displeased the LORD.
• (2 Sam 121) Then the LORD sent Nathan to David.

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Temptation to Death

• (James 114-15 KJV) But every man is tempted,
  when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
  enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it
  bringeth forth sin and sin, when it is finished,
  bringeth forth death.

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David was a Great Man, but he was a man!
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David was a Great Man, but he was a man!

• We must be careful of what we allow in our lives,
  and the way we do things.

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David was a Great Man, but he was a man!

• We must be careful of what we allow in our lives,
  and the way we do things.
• An idle mind is a Devils workshop is as true
  as ever.
• Davids initial sin spiraled out of control to
  even greater sin.

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David was a Great Man, but he was a man!

• We must be careful of what we allow in our lives,
  and the way we do things.
• An idle mind is a Devils workshop is as true
  as ever.
• Davids initial sin spiraled out of control to
  even greater sin.
• David was great, but he let God slip from his
  thoughts.

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