WEEK 8 DISCISSION

Title Your name Instructor’s name Course details Date of Submission The story of the sinful woman named Bathsheba and David in the bible 2 Samuel 11 has been common knowledge and taught as a lesson in sexual sins. Nevertheless, over and above the narrative of David is a significant parable about the human soul, about how even a man who is established in grace and caught up in the business of fulfilling the Lord's anointment can fail, get lost, and be swallowed up by pride and lust. Therefore, the Expositor's Bible Commentary tells how moral fall, procrastination, and “a string of sin” can mar character and precipitate tragedy.1 David's sin was not committing adultery with Bathsheba, but it was a sin of the soul. The author possibly draws on his spiritual downfall progression, claiming that comfort and success slowly sealed David's distance from God. At this point in his life, David was a king with many victories; his adversaries were defeated, and his kingdom grew. However, the commentary argues that with wealth, David relaxed, and he ceased to exhibit his earlier cautious attitude toward God. Based on the commentary, one of those things is that he decided to remain in Jerusalem while kings joined their armies on the battlefields as far as possible. Instead of staying involved in his task, David lay down and let himself get comfy, thus leaving himself vulnerable to sin. Also, it made room for temptations to thrive as people sat idle all day, mainly doing nothing. More than being in terms of physical, David was spiritually idle in Jerusalem, a state induced more by his earlier overconfidence or feeling of invulnerability. This prepared him for an idle, listless condition, which fi...