(October 19, 2014 at 6:05 pm)Chas Wrote: Wow. Really?
2 Samuel 12:11-14
Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die."
These verses refer to God's punishment of King David for his adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband. This promise was fulfilled when David's son Absalom rebelled against David and took his father's concubines and had sex with them. God allowed this to happen just as he allowed countless acts of evil happen. God didn't go to Absalom and tell him to capture David's concubine and rape them, the same as he didn't order the Babylonians to capture and destroy Jerusalem and take the Israelites into captivity as slaves. Absalom committed these acts according to his own choosing after listening to bad advice from his young and inexperienced advisors. It turned out to be a bad decision, by the way for him. God often used evil nations to punish Israel for their disobedience.
