1 KINGS 15:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”
because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite — David's characterization as righteous (except for the Bathsheba-Uriah affair) establishes him as the biblical paradigm of acceptable kingship. The phrase אֶת־דְּבַר־אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּי (the matter of Uriah the Hittite) acknowledges David's greatest sin—yet even this transgression did not abrogate the covenant promises.
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