#Behold_Uriah_the_Hittite
#sordid_affair
#despicable_betrayal
Thou knowest the SORDID affair and the
DESPICABLE betrayal!
2Samuel 11
11 ¶And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and
Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my
lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat
and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing
12 ¶And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to
day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem
that day, and the morrow.
13 And when David had called him, he did eat
and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on
his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
14 ¶And it came to pass in the morning, that
David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye
Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he
may be smitten, and die.
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The passionate words of Uriah in reply to schemer David (verse 11) choked and overwhelmed me - O what devoted loyalty and covenant faithfulness to the LORD (represented by the ark), the country, the king, and the fellow soldiers.
May the Lord God raise up men and women with
the selfless spirit of Uriah the Hittite in His churches today. Amen.
A question crossed my mind -
"Is the betrayal of Uriah the Hittite by
his King David
less reprehensible than
the betrayal of Jesus the Christ
by His
apostle Judas Iscariot?"
