The Capture of Rabbah – 1 Chronicles 20:1 & 2 Samuel 11:1
- In the spring of the year (when kings usually go to war), Joab leads Israel in successful attacks against the Ammonites. David decides to stay behind in Jerusalem.
David and Bathsheba – 2 Samuel 11:2–13
- One afternoon, David walks on the roof of his house and sees a beautiful woman bathing on another rooftop. He inquires about her and is told she is Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite. David sends messengers to bring her to him, and he lays with her. She conceives and sends word to David that she is pregnant.
- David sends word to Joab to send him Uriah the Hittite. Uriah comes to David, and David tells him to go down to his house and wash his feet, but Uriah sleeps at David's door with David's servants instead. David questions him why, and Uriah tells him that he could not go to his wife while the Israelite soldiers were encamped. He refuses to go to his wife.
- David tells him to remain at the palace for a day, and he eats with David and gets drunk. Uriah still doesn't go down to his house. In the morning David writes a letter to Joab, telling him to put Uriah on the front line where the fighting is hardest so he is killed, and sends it to him by Uriah. Joab does as instructed, Uriah is killed, and Joab sends word of it to David.
- Bathsheba learns that her husband is dead, and she laments over him. When her mourning is over, David sends for her and makes her his wife. She bears him a son, but what David did displeases the Lord.
Nathan Rebukes David – 2 Samuel 12:1–14
- The Lord sends Nathan to David and has him tells him about a rich man and poor man. (The rich man has many sheep, while the poor man has only one, which he loves like daughter. The rich man, unwilling to to take from his own flock to prepare a meal for a visitor, takes the poor man's one lamb and prepares it.) David becomes angry and tells Nathan that the rich man deserves to die and should restore the lamb fourfold.
- Nathan points out that David is that rich man and asks him why he has despised the Lord by doing evil in His sight by having Uriah the Hittite killed so he could cover up his adultery with Bathsheba and take her as a wife. Nathan tells David that God will take his wives and give them to his neighbors, and they will lie with them.
- David admits that he has sinned, and Nathan tells him that God has put his sin away and he will not die, but the child born to David and Bathsheba will die. Nathan then returns to his house.
Create a Clean Heart in Me, O God – Psalm 51
- David pens a penitent psalm after his conviction from Nathan the prophet.
David's Child Dies – 2 Samuel 12:15–25
- The Lord afflicts the son of David and Bathsheba, and he becomes sick. David seeks God on the child's behalf, fasting and lying on the ground. For seven days, he refuses to raise from the ground or eat food. On the seventh day, the child dies, and David's servants are afraid to tell him.
- David sees his servants whispering together and realizes his child has died. When he asks, they confirm that. David gets up, washes and anoints himself, and eats.
Solomon's Birth
- David goes to his wife, comforts her, and lies with her. She conceives and gives birth to Solomon (also known as Jedidiah), and the Lord loves him.
David's Other Children – 2 Samuel 5:14–16, 1 Chronicles 14:3–7, and 1 Chronicles 3:5–9
- More sons and daughters are born to David by his wives and concubines.
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