1 Kings 15:5

5. Save only in the matter of Uriah This was David’s great, crying offence, which drew down on him the judgments of God, and is ever mentioned to his shame. But he was guilty of other sins as the neglect to properly discipline his sons, the primal cause of Absalom’s and Adonijah’s ruin; his falsehoods before Achish, (1 Samuel 27:10;) and his sin in numbering Israel. 2 Samuel 24:10. But all these are, in comparison with his guilt in adultery with Bathsheba, and in the murder of Uriah, as sins of infirmity and ignorance. “This great, presumptuous sin,” says Bishop Sanderson, “standeth up as a pillar or monument erected to his perpetual shame in that particular, for all succeeding generations to take warning and example by.”