David’s crime and repentance (1 John 1:9)
David was a man who was specially chosen and anointed as King of Israel by God.
If we read up to 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel 10, we can see that David was really a faithful person. God even said, “I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart (Acts 13:22).” When we read all Psalms that David wrote, we can know that David is really faithful and that he really loves and believes in God. God also gave a lot of blessing to David. David is a man who received many blessings from God. Because David was so grateful and thankful about the blessings of God, he praised God through Psalms.
This kind of faithful man had committed a sin, which even some of non-Christian don’t do. And it was recorded in the Bible. David is one of the greatest kings in
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David didn’t keep the 6th commandment (6-17).
Since David heard that Bathsheba got a baby by sleeping with him, he tried to make Uriah to come from the battle and to sleep with his wife to hide the adultery. However, Uriah didn’t go down to his own house, and rather slept at the entrance to the palace with the servants who guard the palace. David later asked him why, and Uriah said he couldn’t go to his house and sleep with his wife while his friends and the master Joab were in the battle. Thus, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. He committed a shameful crime. The letter was to make Joab to put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest so he will be stuck down and die.
At that time, David had no conscience and his faith had fallen. Because David made Uriah die in the battle, he failed to keep the commandment, “You shall not murder (Exodus 20:13).” And he deserved to die since he committed premeditated murder.
“If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death (Leviticus 24:17).” The crime that David had committed is a premeditated crime, so he deserved to die according to the Bible.
II. David repented his sins (2 Samuel