Absolute Power Never Ends Up Well

The Second Book of Samuel Chapters 2-18

The power may even destroy such a normal person as David. He became the great king of Philistine, and then he went on to conquer Israel, his former city. Since he won the respect of all Israelite people, he had no problem, at first.

It wasn't his people that destroyed David, it was his own family, his sons. With his wife Micah, David had two sons named Absalom and Amnon. Absalom slayed his brother, and then, he turned all Israel against David.

David was already loosing his mind. He committed adultery with a woman. I thought that the Ten Commandments said that people shouldn't commit adultery or want the neighbours wife. In this case, David just sinned in two of this commandments. Shouldn't be God like, furious? Even what David did, he sent his lover's wife to die at battle and then get her for him. "And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD". (2 Samuel 11:27)

I liked Nathan's way of telling what David had just done. And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.(2 Samuel 12:4) Even so, David loathed him then, but Nathan was right! David had just sinned gravely, and he thought he would get out of this without being punished.