21You shall not covetj your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Covet
Nathan Rebukes David with this story of coveting.
2 Samuel 12: 1Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor. 2The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle, 3but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
4Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
But why did the Lord send Nathan to king David? Because he coveted his neighbors wife, got her pregnant and when his plan failed to have her husband sleep with her to cover up the pregnancy, David devised a plan to have her husband killed in battle.
Now David repented of his sins and the Lord forgave him but there were consequences!
“Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. –”
Blessings
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