Was David ever mad at God?
He was David's friend, and when he died, David got mad at God. The Bible says that David became afraid of God.
1. (10) David knows that he has done wrong in numbering the people. And David's heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O LORD, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
"This is what the LORD says: `Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel. '"
David's Disobedience to God Causes a National Pestilence (1 Chronicles 21:1-17)
David opens Psalm 77 (read the entire chapter on Biblica) by explaining that he "cried out to God for help" when he was in distress. But this section of scripture also acknowledges something else: that sometimes we don't feel God responding to us when we're in the midst of our struggles.
“David, this is a picture of what you've done. Don't you see that?” A few verses later David says, “I have sinned against the Lord.” After more than nine months of silence, David confesses his sin to the Lord. This confession was the beginning of repentance in David's life, expressed in Psalm 51.
His judgment impaired by the loss of the Spirit, David then committed adultery with Bathsheba and conceived a child out of wedlock (see 2 Samuel 11:4–5).
David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard. Achish said to his servants, "Look at the man!
David married the widowed Bathsheba, but their first child died as punishment from God for David's adultery and murder of Uriah. David repented of his sins, and Bathsheba later gave birth to Solomon.
God testified concerning him: 'I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do. '” It appears that Samuel called David “a man after God's own heart” because of his obedience.
Why was David close to God's heart?
David was anything but half-hearted in his love and worship. Through his passionate pursuit and love of the Lord, King David became a man after God's own heart. He loved what God loved, and he worshipped the Lord with all his might!
In the most general sense, Psalm 22 is about a person who is crying out to God to save him from the taunts and torments of his enemies, and (in the last ten verses) thanking God for rescuing him.
King David committed adultery with a woman named Bathsheba who consequently became pregnant. Upon learning of Bathsheba's condition, David tried to cover his sin and eventually arranged for Bathsheba's husband, Uriah, to be killed in battle.
- Stayed in Jerusalem instead of leading Israel into battle. ...
- Had an affair with his soldier's wife. ...
- Tried to cover up the pregnancy. ...
- Murdered Uriah the Hittite. ...
- Took Bathsheba as his wife.
Nearing the end of his life, King David wrote his final words as the “sweet psalmist of Israel.” Yet they were not a chronicle of personal achievements; rather, he prophesied concerning God's promise to one day send a King who would rule humanity in perfect justice and righteousness.
As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the same clan as Saul's family came out from there. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he cursed as he came out. He pelted David and all the king's officials with stones, though all the troops and the special guard were on David's right and left.
The Bible provides a great deal of information as regards Saul and Nebuchadnezzar, the two figures who are considered to be insane in the literature.
"`If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. "`If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
"Go and tell David, `This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you. '" So Gad went to David and said to him, "Shall there come upon you three years of famine in your land?
What two things did God promise David?
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more, neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first, and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and I will cause thee to rest from ...
God sent the Prophet Samuel to Bethlehem and guided him to David, a humble shepherd and talented musician. He brought the young man to Saul's court, where his harp was so soothing that Saul called for David whenever he was vexed by an “evil spirit” sent by God (I Samuel 9:16).
- 1) Willingness to acknowledge his mistakes. Photo credit: freebibleimages.org. ...
- 2) Humility to recognize that he was weak. Photo credit: Canva. ...
- 3) Courage to step up in challenging situations. Photo credit: freebibleimages.org.
Jeremiah was angry with God, and he wrote about it in his prophecy. People have been reading what he wrote for two and a half thousand years. And God, apparently, didn't mind him being honest about it.
David had some tough questions for God. He had discovered what it was like to lose his way when he excluded God and followed his own sinful path. But as he penned the Psalms, he was a man in search of godliness, which meant he probed God's mind about difficult subjects.
9 Then God said to Jonah, "What right do you have to get angry about this shade tree?" Jonah said, "Plenty of right. It's made me angry enough to die!"
Jeremiah ( c. 650 – c. 570 BC), also called Jeremias or the "weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
In Hinduism, Kali (Devanāgari: कलि, IAST: kali, with both vowels short; from a root kad, 'suffer, hurt, startle, confuse') is the being who reigns during the age of the Kali Yuga and acts as the nemesis of Kalki, the tenth and final avatar of the Hindu preserver deity, Vishnu.
Anger at sin is good (Mark 3:5), but anger at goodness is sin. That is why it is never right to be angry with God. He is always and only good, no matter how strange and painful his ways with us. Anger toward God signifies that he is bad or weak or cruel or foolish.
Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and others all petitioned for divine intervention in their lives, or appealed forcefully to God to alter His proposed decree. Other biblical arguments focused on personal or communal suffering and anger: Jeremiah, Job, and certain Psalms and Lamentations.
Did God punish David for Bathsheba?
David married the widowed Bathsheba, but their first child died as punishment from God for David's adultery and murder of Uriah. David repented of his sins, and Bathsheba later gave birth to Solomon.
King David, the second and greatest of Israel's Kings who ruled that country 3000 years ago, suffered from a disease of the bones: “My strength failed…and my bones are consumed” (Psalm XXXI:11); “My bones wasted away through my anguished roaring all day long” (Psalm XXXII:3).
Why Does God Get Angry? In the Bible God gets angry at human violence. He gets angry at powerful leaders who oppress other humans. And the thing that makes God more angry than anything else in the Bible is Israel's constant covenant betrayal.
People will often blame God when what they have lived for comes up empty. “When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord” (Proverbs 19:3). When God's children wandered about in the wilderness, He summed up their attitude as, “They grumble against Me” (Numbers 14:27).
In the angry scene involving king Ahasuerus, the king in anger commanded Vashti to be replaced (Esther 1:9-22), and Haman to be executed (Esther 7:1-10). In all the preceding examples, angry scenes appears to help in moving the story forward and have also attending impact on plot progression of biblical narratives.
In Christianity, the last prophet of the Old Covenant before the arrival of Jesus is John the Baptist (cf. Luke 16:16).
