2 Samuel 11:14-24

14In the morning David awrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, bthat he may be struck down, and die.” 16And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. 17And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died. 18Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting. 19And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king, 20then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 cWho killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast 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.’”

22So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 23The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. 24Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”

Ecclesiastes 5:8

The Vanity of Wealth and Honor

8 dIf you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, edo not be amazed at the matter, ffor the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

Man Cannot Know God’s Ways

14There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people gto whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people hto whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
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