Problem: David says, \u201cFor I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not acted wickedly against my God. 23 For all His ordinances were before me, and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also blameless toward Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity\u201d (2 Sam. 22:22-24). How can this be the case, when he was found guilty of murder and adultery (2 Sam. 11)?
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\nSolution: David knew that he had sinned before. When Nathan rebuked him, he said, \u201cI have sinned against the Lord\u201d (2 Sam. 12:13). In Psalm 51, he admitted, \u201cI know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against You, You only, I have sinned and done what is evil in Your sight\u201d (vv.3-4). Thus David wasn\u2019t clueless over his sin. Instead, David\u2019s focus here is on the grace of God in light of his failures. Later in the chapter, David says, \u201cYou save the humble\u201d (v.28), and \u201cThe Lord turns my darkness into light\u201d (v.29) and \u201cHe is a shield for all who take refuge in him\u201d (v.31). Thus, he must be showing that God has made him purified for his failures.<\/p>\n
Another view is that David was speaking in a hyperbolic sense. He might be looking back on his life of faith, and he is saying that he has followed God for the entirety of his life. At the very least, we learn that David isn\u2019t sin-focused at the end of his life.<\/p>\n
“Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. (1 Kings 15:5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Problem: David says, \u201cFor I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not acted wickedly against my God. 23 For all His ordinances were before me, and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also blameless toward Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity\u201d (2 Sam.Continue reading →<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}