(June 21, 2014 at 3:03 am)alpha male Wrote: No, you have to back up to the beginning. David's downfall comes from his own laziness.Yes! I think Uriah still works as a foil in that scenario, perhaps even more so. Maybe his actions remind David of his own irresponsibility to the troops and makes it even easier for him to slide down that slope to ruin.
2 Sam 11
1 It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
It was the time when kings go out to battle, but David didn't. If he had, none of this would have happened.
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