2 Samuel 11

2. Christ's sacrifice is meritorious, he not only died for our example, but to merit salvation: The person who suffered being God as well as man, did put virtue into his sufferings; and now our sins are expiated, and God appeased. No sooner did the messengers say, Uriah is dead;…

(4.) Murder is committed with the pen. So David killed Uriah, in writing to Joab to set Uriah in the fore-front of the battle (2 Samuel 11:15). Though the Ammonites' sword cut off Uriah, yet David's pen was the cause of his death.

Idleness is the cause of sodomy and uncleanness (Ezekiel 16:49). When David was idle on the top of his roof, then he espied Bathsheba, and took her to him (2 Samuel 11:4). Jerome gave his friend this counsel, to be always well employed in God's vineyard, that when the devil came…

So while men sleep in sloth Satan sows his tares. When David was walking on the leads, and unoccupied, now the Devil set a tempting object before him, and it prevailed (2 Samuel 11:3). 3. Season. When a person is reduced to outward wants and straits, now is the Devil's tempting…

So for the second particular, in case a sin is not thoroughly humbled for and confessed, or if when we committed it we had shifts to keep us from thinking it was sin or not so heinous — or were doubtful whether it was a sin and so were loath to acknowledge it as such, to burden…

3. That no place is privileged from temptations, unless we leave our hearts behind us. David walking on the terrace or house top was ensnared by Bathsheba's beauty (2 Samuel 11:2-4). Lot that was chaste in Sodom, yet committed incest in the mountain, where there were none but hi…

So of Samson (Judges 16:1): He went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her. David was ensnared by his eyes (2 Samuel 11:2): From the roof he saw a woman washing herself, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. Naboth's vineyard was ever in Ahab's eye, as bein…

Meanwhile, the Evangelist adds a human disgrace, which might almost bring a stain on the glory of this divine blessing. David the King begat Solomon by her that had been the wife of Uriah; by Bathsheba, whom he wickedly tore from her husband, and for the sake of enjoying whom, h…

It must satisfy us that the will of God is so. The answer which David gave Joab's messenger is good settling counsel now (2 Samuel 11:25.) Let not this thing displease you (He speaks this after the fall of noble Urijah) for the sword (not by accident but decree, not casually but…

It will be an excellent means of preventing this sin. It is a good observation that one has; That Israel was safer in the Brick-kilns in Egypt, than in the Plains of Moab, 2 Samuel 11:2. And it came to pass in the even-tide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the r…

Saul shall rise up in judgment against such: for he supposing that it was too hard a task for David to undertake combat with Goliath, was loath to put him to it (1 Samuel 17:33). David exceedingly failed in this, when he gave direction that Uriah should be set in the forefront o…

So, (1 Corinthians 7:5) lest Satan tempt you by your incontinency; sets lusts a boiling, either to vex the saints, or to ensnare them. It is possible he may sometimes prevail with God's own children, to draw them to some particular act of gross sin; as (2 Samuel 11:4) as when Da…

So of Samson, (Judges 16:1) Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her. So David was ensnared by looking on Bathsheba, (2 Samuel 11:2) and it came to pass in an evening tide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house, an…

Again, Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God: he now saw upon more serious consideration, it was not a point of policy, a slight of subtle and secret conveyance that would color over the business, and free him from blame, because he intimated his mind to Joab to act it. But no…

And if we lay down our weapons, he will fall on and wound us. After David's victory over the Assyrians he grew lustful and defiled Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:4); after we have gotten a victory over Satan in duty, now let us fear lest our hearts give us the slip. When God drove Adam…

Song of Solomon 5:6: My beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone, my soul failed when he spoke, remembering his speeches, when he knocked (verse 2). There may be some too lengthy security under sad falls, when he is not soon missed (2 Samuel 11:1-3; Psalm 26:15). Indeed a spi…

Objection 2. But the sins pardoned to the justified person after the first justification of his person, were never pardoned before, and they are now pardoned, therefore there must be two justifications. Answer: They were virtually pardoned, and so, as he shall never come to cond…

2. As sin is a blackness contrary to the innocency that the Law requires, and as it blots and defiles the soul, it is a Macula, a spot, a filthy and deformed thing, abasing the creature, making the creature black, crooked, defiled, like the skin of the Ethiopian, or spotted like…