Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about things that have made the scriptures become real to us, and hopefully we can apply it to our lives better and draw more power from it as a

result. I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and we're going to talk about what is my least favorite

episode, probably the entire year. It's a very sad story. This is what we often refer to us to the

fall of David, though I think we shouldn't leave it there. That's not the end of the story. But

there's a lot we can learn

from this. And I also think there's a lot that we do with this that probably isn't reasonable to do

as we try and learn lessons. We're going to try and learn lessons, but responsible to the historical

context. And so that's what we're going to work on right now. So let's start in chapter 11. This is 2nd Samuel chapter 11. And a lot of people make a big

deal out of the beginning of this verse. And maybe we should and maybe we shouldn't. And it came to

pass after the year was expired at the time when the kings go forth to battle that David sent Joab

and his servants with them in all Israel and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabah, but David Terry is still in Jerusalem. So a lot of people say, okay, his first mistake is not being where he's supposed to be. And it is somewhat ironic because remember that the reason Israel wanted a king was to have someone lead them to battle. And David has certainly done that a lot, but at this point, he doesn't go. Well, I mean, I don't know that the king

goes every single time. And sometimes the king needs to stay in his capital instead of always

begun to battle. So that's one thing to think about. It's also interesting because the word that it uses

here in verse two, where it says, walked upon the roof of the king's house is a

reflexive term of that, that verb to walk.

Heat aleck is what it is.

The heat pail is a reflexive term.

It's an unusual use of that word.

It can mean pace around, and maybe that's what it means here, but actually a friend of

mine and we did a little study on this word, and most of the time it's used. But actually a friend of mine and I, we did a little study on this word.

And most of the time it's used to have some kind of ritual context.

So it may be that he's involved in some kind of ritual he needed to stay for.

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