2 Samuel 12:9 KJV
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.
The Bible says in
2 Samuel 12:24 KJV
And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
But even though God loved Solomon, and ordained that he should be the next king, still, David's sin with Bathsheba (God said he despised the commandment of the Lord by taking Bathsheba as his wife) could not have been overlooked by the Lord. Certainly it was not. Besides the death of the first child born to the two of them and the family division the Bible so clearly details there is one other, not so obvious judgment. Solomon, though the next in line for the kingdom, and though offered to be the one from whose family the Saviour would come, has no blood in Jesus Christ. Jesus' step father, Joseph, was from the family of Solomon to provide the legal right to sit upon David's throne. But God had pronounced a curse upon the last king in Solomon's family that none of his children would sit on that throne. True to His Word, Mary, Jesus' mother, and the one through whom He has a blood kinship to David, traces her lineage not through Solomon but through David's son Nathan.
In Solomon we see both the goodness and severity of God (Romans 11:22). God expressed goodness in loving Solomon and anointing him king. God expressed severity in that Solomon's blood does not finally make it to the Son of God.
Truly God is gracious and good to His people. But that is no reason for us to feel free or even at ease to go on in sin. God does, for Christ’s sake, forgive us. But then He commands us to “sin no more.”
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.
The Bible says in
2 Samuel 12:24 KJV
And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
But even though God loved Solomon, and ordained that he should be the next king, still, David's sin with Bathsheba (God said he despised the commandment of the Lord by taking Bathsheba as his wife) could not have been overlooked by the Lord. Certainly it was not. Besides the death of the first child born to the two of them and the family division the Bible so clearly details there is one other, not so obvious judgment. Solomon, though the next in line for the kingdom, and though offered to be the one from whose family the Saviour would come, has no blood in Jesus Christ. Jesus' step father, Joseph, was from the family of Solomon to provide the legal right to sit upon David's throne. But God had pronounced a curse upon the last king in Solomon's family that none of his children would sit on that throne. True to His Word, Mary, Jesus' mother, and the one through whom He has a blood kinship to David, traces her lineage not through Solomon but through David's son Nathan.
In Solomon we see both the goodness and severity of God (Romans 11:22). God expressed goodness in loving Solomon and anointing him king. God expressed severity in that Solomon's blood does not finally make it to the Son of God.
Truly God is gracious and good to His people. But that is no reason for us to feel free or even at ease to go on in sin. God does, for Christ’s sake, forgive us. But then He commands us to “sin no more.”
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