deliberate and disgraceful. This may be why 1 Kings 15:5 emphasizes “the matter of Uriah the Hittite” and says nothing about Bathsheba. But the Lord judged both sins and David paid dearly for his lust and deceit. God repaid David “in kind” (Deut. 19:21; Ex. 21:23–25; Lev. 24:20), a spiritual principle that David expressed in his “victory psalm” after Saul died (Ps. 18:25–27). The sword did not depart from the king’s household, and his wives were taken and violated just as he had taken Bathsheba.