Rev Chris Roth

2 Samuel 11 David and Bathsheba 11  In the spring,   at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab   out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army.   They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.   But David remained in Jerusalem . 2  One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof   of the palace. From the roof he saw   a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,   3  and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba,   the daughter of Eliam   and the wife of Uriah   the Hittite.”   4  Then David sent messengers to get her.   She came to him, and he slept   with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.)   Then she went back home.   5  The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” 6  So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah   the Hittite.” An...

2 Samuel 7:1-14a 7:1 Now when the king was settled in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,7:2 the king said to the prophet Nathan, "See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent."7:3 Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that you have in mind; for the LORD is with you."7:4 But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan:7:5 Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the LORD: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?7:6 I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle.7:7 Wherever I have moved about among all the people of Israel, did I ever speak a word with any of the tribal leaders of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"7:8 Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the LOR...

2 Samuel 6 New International Version (NIV) The Ark Brought to Jerusalem 6  David again brought together all the able young men of Israel —thirty thousand.   2  He and all his men went to Baalah [ a ]   in Judah to bring up from there the ark   of God, which is called by the Name, [ b ]   the name of the   Lord   Almighty, who is enthroned   between the cherubim   on the ark.   3  They set the ark of God on a new cart   and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill.   Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart   4  with the ark of God on it, [ c ]   and Ahio was walking in front of it. 5  David and all Israel were celebrating   with all their might before the   Lord , with castanets, [ d ]   harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals. 6  When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of   the ar...