There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.” —2 SAMUEL 11:1–5 THE PROGRESSION OF A PRIVATE FALL There are five significant points to be made with David that reveal the progression of a private moral failure. T HE WRONG PLACE The text indicates that it was a time of war, when kings were at battle, but David, Israel’s king, sent his men to fight for him; he was not fighting with them. His place was the battlefield, but he was in the palace. David was in the wrong place . T HE WRONG TIME The second clue to the mystery of the private struggle was David arose at “eveningtide” (v. 2, KJV ). The word eveningtide indicates the king was sleeping in very late, as the word alludes to sometime late in the afternoon. He should have awakened early, as he indicated in the Psalms that “early” he would seek the Lord (Ps. 63:1). Thus David was in the wrong place at the wrong time.