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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="chapter ch12" data-usfm="2SA.12.1+2SA.12.2+2SA.12.3+2SA.12.4+2SA.12.5+2SA.12.6+2SA.12.7+2SA.12.8+2SA.12.9+2SA.12.10+2SA.12.11+2SA.12.12+2SA.12.13+2SA.12.14+2SA.12.15+2SA.12.16+2SA.12.17+2SA.12.18+2SA.12.19+2SA.12.20+2SA.12.21+2SA.12.22+2SA.12.23">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, &#8220;There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, &#8220;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, the man who did this must die! </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Nathan said to David, &#8220;You are the man! This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I gave your master&#8217;s house to you, and your master&#8217;s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Why did you despise the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then David said to Nathan, &#8220;I have sinned against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.12.13"><span class="content">Nathan replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:14 </span><span class="ft">An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">for the enemies of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the son born to you will die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2SA.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">After Nathan had gone home, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck the child that Uriah&#8217;s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:16 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">in sackcloth</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2SA.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the child died. David&#8217;s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, &#8220;While the child was still living, he wouldn&#8217;t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2SA.12.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. &#8220;Is the child dead?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.12.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;he is dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2SA.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2SA.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2SA.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">His attendants asked him, &#8220;Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2SA.12.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2SA.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, &#8216;Who knows? The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> may be gracious to me and let the child live.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2SA.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2SA.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">51</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 51</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 51:1-19 is numbered 51:3-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Have mercy on me, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">according to your unfailing love;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">according to your great compassion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">blot out my transgressions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Wash away all my iniquity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="content">and cleanse me from my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I know my transgressions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="content">and my sin is always before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Against you, you only, have I sinned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">and done what is evil in your sight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">so you are right in your verdict</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">and justified when you judge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely I was sinful at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="content">sinful from the time my mother conceived me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="content">you taught me wisdom in that secret place.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="content">wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let me hear joy and gladness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="content">let the bones you have crushed rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hide your face from my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="content">and blot out all my iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Create in me a pure heart, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">and renew a steadfast spirit within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not cast me from your presence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">or take your Holy Spirit from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Restore to me the joy of your salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then I will teach transgressors your ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="content">so that sinners will turn back to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">you who are God my Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Open my lips, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="content">and my mouth will declare your praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="content">you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My sacrifice, O God, is</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">51:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The sacrifices of God are</span></span></span><span class="content"> a broken spirit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">a broken and contrite heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">you, God, will not despise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May it please you to prosper Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="content">to build up the walls of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="content">in burnt offerings offered whole;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="content">then bulls will be offered on your altar.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 32</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">whose transgressions are forgiven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">whose sins are covered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">whose sin the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not count against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">and in whose spirit is no deceit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">my bones wasted away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">through my groaning all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">your hand was heavy on me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">my strength was sapped</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">as in the heat of summer.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 7.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I acknowledged my sin to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">and did not cover up my iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will confess</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">my transgressions to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">And you forgave</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">the guilt of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore let all the faithful pray to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">while you may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">surely the rising of the mighty waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">will not reach them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You are my hiding place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">you will protect me from trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">and surround me with songs of deliverance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="content">I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be like the horse or the mule,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">which have no understanding</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">but must be controlled by bit and bridle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">or they will not come to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many are the woes of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s unfailing love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">surrounds the one who trusts in him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and be glad, you righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.32.11"><span class="content">sing, all you who are upright in heart!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2SA.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and made love to her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loved him; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:25 </span><span class="fq">Jedidiah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">loved </span><span class="fqa">by the </span><span class="fq"><span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2SA.12.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2SA.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Meanwhile Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal citadel. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2SA.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, &#8220;I have fought against Rabbah and taken its water supply. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2SA.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now muster the rest of the troops and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will take the city, and it will be named after me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2SA.12.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2SA.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So David mustered the entire army and went to Rabbah, and attacked and captured it. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2SA.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">David took the crown from their king&#8217;s</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from Milkom&#8217;s </span><span class="ft">(that is, Molek&#8217;s)</span></span></span><span class="content"> head, and it was placed on his own head. It weighed a talent</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, and it was set with precious stones. David took a great quantity of plunder from the city </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2SA.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:31 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David took the crown from the head of their king</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of Milkom, </span><span class="ft">that is, Molek</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;its weight was found to be a talent</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, and it was set with precious stones&#8212;and it was placed on David&#8217;s head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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