“Concubines”

September 28, 2018

“Concubines”

Blessings folk!

Remember David’s sin with Bathsheba?
He was on his roof and saw her taking a bath on her roof.

Remember how God had told him that he had done these things secretly, but God would do something publicly?

2 Sa 12:11-12

“Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household;
I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion,
and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.

‘Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.’”

Remember how David left his concubines behind?

2 Sa 15:16

So the king went out and all his household with him.
But the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

Watch how the Word of the Lord is fulfilled…

2 Sa 16:20-23

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your advice. What shall we do?”

Ahithophel said to Absalom,
“Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house;
then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father.
The hands of all who are with you will also be strengthened.”

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof,
and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

The advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one inquired of the word of God; so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.

Absalom took his father’s concubines.
All Israel saw it.
They knew what it meant.
He was claiming the Kingdom…and more.
A brazen act.

Ahithophel’s counsel appears to give the advice of the Lord…the Lord did say that He would be the one who did this.

Power perverts.

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