2Sa 11:2 Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

2Sa 11:3 So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"

2Sa 11:4 David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

2Sa 11:5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am pregnant."

2Sa 11:6 Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

2Sa 11:7 When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and the people and the state of the war.

2Sa 11:8 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and a present from the king was sent out after him.

2Sa 11:9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

2Sa 11:10 Now when they told David, saying, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"

2Sa 11:11 Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, 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? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing."

2Sa 11:12 Then David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

2Sa 11:13 Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lord's servants, but he did not go down to his house.

2Sa 11:14 Now in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

2Sa 11:15 He had written in the letter, saying, "Place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die."

2Sa 11:16 So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men.

2Sa 11:17 The men of the city went out and fought against Joab, and some of the people among David's servants fell; and Uriah the Hittite also died.

2Sa 11:18 Then Joab sent and reported to David all the events of the war.

2Sa 11:19 He charged the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king,

2Sa 11:20 and if it happens that the king's wrath rises and he says to you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

2Sa 11:21 Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?'"then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"

2Sa 11:22 So the messenger departed and came and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to tell.

2Sa 11:23 The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.

2Sa 11:24 Moreover, the archers shot at your servants from the wall; so some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead."

2Sa 11:25 Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, 'Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and overthrow it'; and so encourage him."

2Sa 11:26 Now when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2Sa 11:27 When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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2Sa 12:1 Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to him and said, "There were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor.

2Sa 12:2 "The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

2Sa 12:3 "But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb Which he bought and nourished; And it grew up together with him and his children. It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom, And was like a daughter to him.

2Sa 12:4 "Now a traveler came to the rich man, And he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd, To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him; Rather he took the poor man's ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him."

2Sa 12:5 Then David's anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die.

2Sa 12:6 He must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion."

2Sa 12:7 Nathan then said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel, 'It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul.

2Sa 12:8 I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these!

2Sa 12:9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

2Sa 12:10 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 your wife.'

2Sa 12:11 Thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.

2Sa 12:12 Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.'"

2Sa 12:13 Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has taken away your sin; you shall not die.

2Sa 12:14 However, because by this deed you have given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die."

2Sa 12:15 So Nathan went to his house. Then the Lord struck the child that Uriah's widow bore to David, so that he was very sick.

2Sa 12:16 David therefore inquired of God for the child; and David fasted and went and lay all night on the ground.

2Sa 12:17 The elders of his household stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.

2Sa 12:18 Then it happened on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Behold, while the child was still alive, we spoke to him and he did not listen to our voice. How then can we tell him that the child is dead, since he might do himself harm!"

2Sa 12:19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; so David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" And they said, "He is dead."

2Sa 12:20 So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he came into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he came to his own house, and when he requested, they set food before him and he ate.

2Sa 12:21 Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; but when the child died, you arose and ate food."

2Sa 12:22 He said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows, the Lord may be gracious to me, that the child may live.'

2Sa 12:23 But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."

2Sa 12:24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her; and she gave birth to a son, and he named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved him

2Sa 12:25 and sent word through Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah for the Lord's sake.

2Sa 12:26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and captured the royal city.

2Sa 12:27 Joab sent messengers to David and said, "I have fought against Rabbah, I have even captured the city of waters.

2Sa 12:28 Now therefore, gather the rest of the people together and camp against the city and capture it, or I will capture the city myself and it will be named after me."

2Sa 12:29 So David gathered all the people and went to Rabbah, fought against it and captured it.

2Sa 12:30 Then he took the crown of their king from his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in great amounts.

2Sa 12:31 He also brought out the people who were in it, and set them under saws, sharp iron instruments, and iron axes, and made them pass through the brickkiln. And thus he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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1Ch 20:1 Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the sons of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and overthrew it.

1Ch 20:2 David took the crown of their king from his head, and he found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.

1Ch 20:3 He brought out the people who were in it, and cut them with saws and with sharp instruments and with axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

1Ch 20:4 Now it came about after this, that war broke out at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the giants, and they were subdued.

1Ch 20:5 And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

1Ch 20:6 Again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; and he also was descended from the giants.

1Ch 20:7 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.

1Ch 20:8 These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

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Day 133 -- 13 May:   2 Samuel 11-12;

Day 131 -- 11 May:   2 Samuel 10; 1 Chronicles 19; Psalm 20
Day 132 -- 12 May:   Psalm 65-67; Psalm 69-70

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Day 134 -- 14 May:   Psalm 32; Psalm 51;Psalm 86; Psalm 122
Day 135 -- 15 May:   2 Samuel 13-15

Day 136 -- 16 May:   Psalm 3-4; Psalm 12-13;Psalm 28; Psalm 55
Day 137 -- 17 May:   2 Samuel 16-18

Day 138 -- 18 May:   Psalm 26; Psalm 40;Psalm 58; Psalm 61-62; Psalm 64