aaSee ch. 16:30-33
aeSee 2 Sam. 3:31
2 Samuel 12:7-15
7Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, a‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 8And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 9 bWhy have you despised the word of the Lord, cto do what is evil in his sight? dYou have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and ehave taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10Now 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.’ 11Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12For you did it secretly, fbut I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’” 13 gDavid said to Nathan, h“I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, i“The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly jscorned the Lord, ▼ the child who is born to you shall die.” 15Then Nathan went to his house.David’s Child Dies
And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick.1 Kings 20:38-41
38So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, ldisguising himself with a bandage over his eyes. 39And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, myour life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver.’ 40And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.” 41Then he hurried to take the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. 1 Kings 21:17-27
The Lord Condemns Ahab
17 oThen the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 18“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in pSamaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession. 19And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: q“In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”20Ahab said to Elijah, r“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because syou have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord. 21Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and twill cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 22And I will make your house like uthe house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like vthe house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you whave made Israel to sin. 23And of Jezebel the Lord also said, x‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within ythe walls of Jezreel.’ 24 zAnyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”
Ahab’s Repentance
25( aaThere was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. 26He acted very abominably in going after abidols, as acthe Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)27And when Ahab heard those words, he adtore his clothes and aeput sackcloth on his flesh and affasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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