The Bible Study Podcast, episode 532. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the

Kings of Israel and Judah with 2nd Samuel chapter 12.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

So we talked about David and Beth Shiba last week, and David sleeps with his neighbor's wife while the neighbor is off at war, and then to try and cover it up, he brings the neighbor back.

That doesn't work because the neighbor won't sleep with his wife because he feels guilty that he is not at the front with his men. And so David has him killed. And at the end of

that chapter, so far as we knew, David had gotten away with it. But then this chapter happens.

2 Samuel 12 consequences. Nathan rebukes David. The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said,

There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had a very large

number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought.

He raised it and grew up with him and his children.

It shared his food, drank from his cup, and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him.

Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him. Instead, he took the U-Lam that belonged to the poor man

and prepared it for the one who had come to him. David burned with anger against the men and

said to Nathan, as surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die. He must pay for that

lamb four times over because he did such a thing and had no pity. Then Nathan said to David,

you are the man. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. I anointed you king over Israel and

delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master's house to you and your master's wives

into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah, and if all this

had been too little, I would have given you even more. Why did you despise the word of the Lord

by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took

his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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