2 Samuel 12:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Despised

To do evil

Jeremiah 18:10

Thou hast

2 Samuel 11:15

General references

Bible References

Despised

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.’

David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

Surely I will require

your lifeblood;

from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

“You shall not murder.

But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord, but rushed upon the spoil and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Judah and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they rejected the law of the Lord
And have not kept His statutes;
Their

lies also have led them astray,

Those after which their fathers walked.

Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

To do evil

He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

Against You, You only, I have sinned

And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

You have placed our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, You have searched me and known me.

if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will

think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it.

Thou hast

He had written in the letter, saying, “Place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.”

General references

“You shall not murder.

Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

‘Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

For many are the victims she has cast down,
And numerous are all her slain.

If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth,
How much more the wicked and the sinner!

Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem