Day 130: Nathan Condemns David (2026)
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That's ascensionpress.com support. Thank you and God bless. Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story. Today, it is day 130. And today we're reading from 2 Samuel chapter 12. We're reading 1 Chronicles chapter 16, and we're praying Psalm 51, the Psalm of repentance of David. Because as we're going to see here in 2 Samuel chapter 12, He is going to be called to a place of repentance.
As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. And if you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. You also can subscribe to this podcast if you're interested in doing something like that. As I said, it is day 130. We are reading from 2 Samuel 12, 1 Chronicles 16, and we are praying Psalm 51. 2 Samuel chapter 12, Nathan condemns David and God punishes him. And the Lord sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, there were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought.
and he brought it up and it grew up with him and with his children it used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his bosom and it was like a daughter to him now there came a traveller to the rich man and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him. Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, and he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity. Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul, and I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah.
And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. Why have you despised the word of the Lord to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the Lord, David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord also has put away your sin. You shall not die. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child that is born to you shall die.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How does Ascension use listener donations to support Catholic media?
0:00–6:13
2
What readings are covered on Day 130 and why are they important?
6:13–10:54
3
How does Nathan confront David using the parable in 2 Samuel 12?
10:54–18:56
4
What consequences and forgiveness does Nathan announce to David?
18:56–19:39