Month: July 2025

You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be…
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Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I…
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Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” 2 Samuel 12:7 Don’t fact check me too closely on this, but I once read that Elvis volunteered his services to the federal government to become a secret agent, rooting out illegal drugs and those who used them. It is no small irony then, that he had…
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And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. 2 Samuel 11:27 As I’ve previously mentioned, 2014 wasn’t the first time I tried to get sober. And it wasn’t the…
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In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 2 Samuel 11:14 Have you ever been a victim of your own behavior, being trapped in a prison of your own making? In my addiction, when I first tried to get sober, I told those providers around me…
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Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives,…
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Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die. 2 Samuel 11:15 When my addiction and opioid diversion came to light, I panicked – I can still fix this. I reached out to friends, asking for them to lie for me,…
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And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.” 2 Samuel 11:5 Part of the culture war waged during my teenage years involved fighting over teenager’s access to birth control. Conservatives argued that to give out birth control was to endorse premarital sex. Basically, if the government gave out condoms, they…
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In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. . . But David remained at Jerusalem. 2 Samuel 11:1 I hit a new PR (personal record) at the gym yesterday, and while the numbers would mean nothing to you,…
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It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 2 Samuel 11:2 Back in my active addiction, I drank too much alcohol, but alcohol was never my first…
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