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Returning Home: A Journey of Grace Through the Parable of the Prodigal Son

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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David and Bathsheba</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king&#8217;s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">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, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, &#8220;She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, &#8220;I am pregnant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So David sent this word to Joab: &#8220;Send me Uriah the Hittite.&#8221; And Joab sent him to David. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then David said to Uriah, &#8220;Go down to your house and wash your feet.&#8221; So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master&#8217;s servants and did not go down to his house.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">David was told, &#8220;Uriah did not go home.&#8221; So he asked Uriah, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn&#8217;t you go home?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Uriah said to David, &#8220;The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">staying at Sukkoth</span></span></span><span class="content"> and my commander Joab and my lord&#8217;s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then David said to him, &#8220;Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.&#8221; So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">At David&#8217;s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master&#8217;s servants; he did not go home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2SA.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In it he wrote, &#8220;Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2SA.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David&#8217;s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2SA.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Joab sent David a full account of the battle. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He instructed the messenger: &#8220;When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2SA.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">the king&#8217;s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, &#8216;Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn&#8217;t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2SA.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:21 </span><span class="ft">Also known as </span><span class="fqa">Jerub-Baal </span><span class="ft">(that is, Gideon)</span></span></span><span class="content">? Didn&#8217;t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?&#8217; If he asks you this, then say to him, &#8216;Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2SA.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2SA.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2SA.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The messenger said to David, &#8220;The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king&#8217;s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">David told the messenger, &#8220;Say this to Joab: &#8216;Don&#8217;t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.&#8217; Say this to encourage Joab.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.11.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2SA.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When Uriah&#8217;s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2SA.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">147</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 147</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">147:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 20</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="content">How good it is to sing praises to our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="content">how pleasant and fitting to praise him!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> builds up Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"><span class="content">he gathers the exiles of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He heals the brokenhearted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"><span class="content">and binds up their wounds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He determines the number of the stars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"><span class="content">and calls them each by name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Great is our Lord and mighty in power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"><span class="content">his understanding has no limit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sustains the humble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"><span class="content">but casts the wicked to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with grateful praise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"><span class="content">make music to our God on the harp.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He covers the sky with clouds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="content">he supplies the earth with rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="content">and makes grass grow on the hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He provides food for the cattle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"><span class="content">and for the young ravens when they call.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"><span class="content">nor his delight in the legs of the warrior;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delights in those who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"><span class="content">who put their hope in his unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"><span class="content">praise your God, Zion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He strengthens the bars of your gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"><span class="content">and blesses your people within you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He grants peace to your borders</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"><span class="content">and satisfies you with the finest of wheat.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He sends his command to the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"><span class="content">his word runs swiftly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He spreads the snow like wool</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"><span class="content">and scatters the frost like ashes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He hurls down his hail like pebbles.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"><span class="content">Who can withstand his icy blast?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He sends his word and melts them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"><span class="content">he stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He has revealed his word to Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"><span class="content">his laws and decrees to Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He has done this for no other nation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><span class="content">they do not know his laws.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">147:20 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">nation; / he has not made his laws known to them</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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