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 will 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 she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

"You shall not murder.

"'But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

To do evil

He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

Thou hast

He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die."

General references

"You shall not murder.

Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

'Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

Behold, the righteous shall be repaid 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,