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                                    The Bathsheba affair- a repentance bible study

            We are not perfect and all succumb to temptation and the lust of the flesh at times, the thing that we all need to do after any such incidents is to repent of them to God, just as David did when he was confronted by Nathan about the issue. I am presenting the story of it, then three Psalms, numbers 32, 38 and 51 especially which is related to the Bathsheba affair, also I will include some repentance related teachings from the new testament in various books.

Here is the complete telling of the Bathsheba affair by David  as told in 2 Samuel chapters 11 and 12. This tells the story from when David finds Bathsheba, to all that he did to distract her husband Uriah, and then ends up having him killed in battle. Chapter 12 deals with David being confronted with the sin, his confession that he did sin, and the consequences. God did indeed forgive David by his mercy and...

                                    Saul and David bible study

Here is a bible study that continues where the last one left off, with the adventures and then the failure of King Saul and the rise of David, who would be anointed as Saul’s successor to the throne. The study contains the story of David’s encounter with Goliath. Here is a link to the first twelve chapters of Samuel so you can know how these situations came about:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/samuel-bible-study/251113221698153

In chapter 13 of 1 Samuel Saul first shows his disobedience to God by seemingly presumptively offering an ox as a burnt offering because the Philistines were with him, and then Samuel starts to speak of another who the Lord will give the kingdom too

(1 Samuel 13:1)  Saul was … years old when he began to reign, and he reigned … and two years over...

FROM ANDREW WOMMACK MINISTRIES

GOD LIKES US

Matthew 18:14 "Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish."

MATTHEW 18:12-14

One of the greatest truths of the Bible and also one of the hardest to comprehend, is that we are the objects of God's love. God didn't just pity us or feel some sense of moral obligation to save us. He saved us because of His infinite love for us...

                                                Samuel bible study

Here I am doing a bible study on Samuel, and the people before him, like Eli, and Samuel’s mother who prayed for a son fervently. Samuel had two books of the bible named after him, covering from Samuel’s birth through the first two kings. This study will cover up to the start of the first of those two kings, and some of the events that fall like the capturing of the Ark of the Covenant.

Here is the link which is the second part of the book of Judges, which gives background information
which could help your study on Samuel
https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/book-of-judges-complete-bible-study-part-
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In 1 Samuel chapter 1 it shows Hanna, barren for a long time prayer for a child and making a vow to turn him over to the Lord’s purposes. She...

                                                Book of Ruth bible study

Here is a bible study on the short book of Ruth- 4 chapters. This book has many lessons for us today even though it goes back to the time of the judges. The one character in the book, Boaz, who owns a farm is a Christ type figure who does redeem and marry Ruth, who gleaned at his farm, along with her mother in law.  These are the accounts of Ruth and Naomi in Moab and Jerusalem

In chapter 1 Ruth determines to go where Naomi goes to stay with her until she dies no matter where she may go.

(Ruth 1:1)  In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

(Ruth 1:2)  The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the...

                        Book of Judges complete bible study part two

            Here are all of some additional chapters to add to my bible study on judges, covering the remaining judges who would deliver Israel from her adversaries in that time period, as well as the other topics at the end of the book. Israel was in a  cyclical period of apostasy with idolatry, then judgment, then repentance, then God would raise up a judge by whom who He would use to deliver from whatever adversary that was vexing and abusing them to punish them for the idolatry they had committed before repenting of it and then God showing His mercy through this or that judge. Chapters 4, 5, and 9-12,17-21 are covered in this study. For the other chapters which I am led to use in judges please go here