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As I mentioned last week, God does not gloss over the failures of the people we study in God's Word. David is certainly no exception. What God gives us is a portrait of David, "warts and all."

That phrase, "warts and all," it's actually attributed to Oliver Cromwell who was Lord Protector of England in the 1600s and had hired the kings artist, Lely, to paint a portrait of him. It was common practice at the time for an artist to flatter the one being painted. Royalty, in particular, expected portraits to show them in the best possible light, even to the point of being outright fanciful if necessary; kind of like a modern day, “Glamour shots.”

But when Cromwell sat down to be painted he said famously, "Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it."

As the king of Israel, David's flaws and failures would become inextricably linked to his reign as king. David had committed adultery with Bathsheba, arranged for her husband to be killed in battle, and then took her as his own life.

Yes, God would forgive him, but there would still be consequences, and that itself is a lesson for all of us. David would see the consequences in his own life and in the lives of his children.

The background of the story is that one of David's sons, Amnon, had desire sexually for his half-sister Tamar. He then pretended to be sick as a ruse to get her to come to him. He then forced himself on her against her strong protest. Afterward, he despised her and sent her away in disgrace. When Absalom her brother found out what had happened, he brought Tamar into his own care and waited for David to take action.

After two full years, Absalom took matters into his own hands and had Amnon killed. Afterwards, he fled to Geshur, the home of his mother’s family. He was banished there for three years.

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