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

""Therefore the sword will never leave your household, because you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'

So David sent some messengers, took her from her home, and she went to him, and he had sex with her. (She had been consecrating herself following her menstrual separation.) Then she returned to her home.

Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being.

"You are not to commit murder.

"But if some person acts with a high hand, whether a native-born or a resident alien, he blasphemes God, and that person is to be eliminated from among his people.

Why didn't you obey the LORD, but grabbed the spoil and did evil in the LORD's sight?"

Therefore, as flames of fire devour straw, as dry grass collapses in flames, so their root will be rotten, and their blossom will blow away like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Judah and now for a fourth I will not turn away; because they rejected the Law of the LORD and did not keep his statutes. Their own lies made them wander off, following along the same path their ancestors walked.

Anyone who violates the Law of Moses dies without mercy "on the testimony of two or three witnesses."

To do evil

He burned his sons as an offering in the Ben-hinnom Valley, practiced fortune-telling, witchcraft, sorcery, and communicated with mediums and separatists. He did a lot of things that the LORD considered to be evil, thus provoking him.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done what was evil in your sight. As a result, you are just in your pronouncement and clear in your judgment.

You have set our iniquities before you, what we have concealed in the light of your presence.

LORD, you have examined me; you have known me.

But if that nation does evil in my eyes by not obeying me, I'll change my mind about the good that I said I would bring on it.

Thou hast

In the message, he wrote: "Assign Uriah to the most difficult fighting at the battle front, and then withdraw from him so that he will be struck down and killed."

General references

"You are not to commit murder.

Then the LORD sent a plague on the people because they made the calf (the one Aaron made).

""Cursed is one who strikes his neighbor secretly.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain.

If the righteous receive what they are due here on earth, how much more will the wicked and the sinner.

Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all of this in Jerusalem to king Zedekiah of Judah,