430 A SHORT VIEW OE SCRIPTURE HISTORY. 41. Q. Had David no wars after this ? A. Yes, he had many battles, and was victo_rious over his enemies round about him, viz. the Philistines and Moabites, the Syrians, and Edomites, &c, 2 Sam./viii. 1 -14. 42. Q. How did David govern Israel ? A. He executed judgment and justice among all the people; 2 Sam. viii. 15. 43. Q. What were the chief blemishes of David's life ? A. His adultery with Bethshèba, the wife of Uriah, and his pride in numbering the People of Israel. 44. Q. How came David to fall in love with Bethsheba ? A. David from the top of his house happened to see her washing herself, and sent for her and defiled her ; 2 Sam. xi. 4. 45. Q. What aggravation attended this sin ? A. Besides the heinous crime of adultery in the sight of God, here was vile ingratitude and base carriage towards Uriah, who at that time was abroad fighting for hum against th Ammonites ; 2 Sam. xi. 6. 46. Q. How did he try to hide it fromUriah and from the world ? A. When he could not persuade Uriah to go to his own house, he sent an order to Joab his general, that he should set Uriah in the hottest placeof the battle, and retire from him, and leave him to be slain ; 2 Sam. xi. 15. 47. Q. What followed upon the death of Uriah which Da- vid had thus contrived ? A. David added;Bethsheba to the rest of his wives, and she bare him a son ; 2 Sain. viii. 27. 48. Q. How was David convinced of his sin ? A. By.an ingenious parable of Nathan the prophet, concerning a rich man who robbed his neighbour of an ewe Iamb, though he liad large_ flocks of his own ; 2 Sam. xii. 1 -8. 49. Q. How did God testify his displeasure against David for this sin? A. He struck the child that was born with sickness and death, and threatened David, that the sword should never depart from his house, and that his own wives should be publicly abused; 2 Sam. xii. 9-14. Note, David testified his deep repentance for this sin in the fifty-first psalm, and perhaps also in some others ;, yet God saw it proper to punish him severely ; because he had given the ene- mies of God occasion to blaspheme; 2 Sam. xii. 11. 50. Q. What were some of the chief troubles that actually came on David's family on this account? A. The troubles that he met with from three of his sons, viz. Ammon, Absalom, and Adonijah. 51. Q. What was the trouble he met with from. Amnon ? A. Amnondefiled his sister Thannar by force, upon which Absa- lom slew him, and then fled out of the land for fear of justice ; 2 Sam. xiii. 14, 26, 37. 52. Q. Did Absalom never return again ?; A. Yes, Absa, lour returned after two years, when David was pacified, and by
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