2 Samuel 11:1 “In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at home.”
Most of you will recognize this verse as the preface to one of the darkest periods in the life of David. These few sentences set the stage for David’s adulterous sexual sin with Bathsheba, and the subsequent arranged murder of her husband Uriah. How does one so great, fall so greatly? This simple verse provides at least one of the keys to it all.
