Daily text, Friday, June 8. 2018

[Queen Esther]

I have found David the son of Jesse a man agreeable to my heart.—Acts 13:22.

David was loved by Jehovah, who found him to be a man “agreeable to his heart.” 4) (1 Sam. 13:13, 1 But David later committed adultery with Bath-sheba, and she became pregnant. That occurred while her husband, Uriah, was away serving in the army. When he came home temporarily, David tried to get him to have sexual relations with Bath-sheba so that it might appear that Uriah was the child’s father. Uriah would not do what the king suggested, so David arranged to have him killed in battle. David paid dearly for his crime—calamities came upon him and his household. (2 Sam. 12:9-12) Yet, God showed mercy to this man who overall walked before Jehovah “with integrity of heart.” (1 Ki. 9:4) If you had lived among God’s people back then, how would you have reacted? Would David’s wrong conduct have stumbled you? w16.06 4:7

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