Spoke 10
Isaiah 10 - 2 Samuel
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the
right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob
the fatherless!
Isaiah 10 (vs. 1f)
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and
sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah
in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Book 10 (2 Samuel 11.14)
The correlation between Isaiah 10 and David's sin recorded in Book 10 is astounding.
It began with David's violation of the Tenth Commandment when he coveted his neighbor Uriah's wife:
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and
walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself;
and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman.
And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
The profound integration of the Tenth Commandment and various elements from Spoke 10
is discussed in the article called Coventousness which
notes in particular its relation to the book of 1 Timothy.
The violation of the Tenth Commandment led directly to violation of the Seventh:
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for
she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. And the woman conceived,
and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
This represents perhaps the greatest violation of the Seventh Commandment in all the Bible. It is
marked by the name Bathsheba, which means Daughter of an Oath or Daughter of Seven as discussed
in David and Bathsheba.
David then tries to deceive Uriah i violation of the Ninth Commandment. When this fails, he
chooses to violate the Sixth Commandment, and has Uriah killed, as quoted at the head of the
page.
This whole sequence of sins and violations of the Ten Commandments began with the violation of the
Tenth Commandment itself, which integrates with the order of the Canon. Futhermore, it integrates with
the sequence of chapters in Isaiah where we find the this warning, which is certainly worth repeating:
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the
right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob
the fatherless!
Could there be a more exact violation of this divine declaration than David's
unrighteous decree which caused Uriah to
be abondonded in the heat of battle and to die? Note also the natural relation between the Hand and Writing which also manifests in
Revelation 10.
And what was
David's spoil from this grievous prescription? He received Uriah's widow, fulfilling
the sin decared in Isaiah 10: "[they] take away the
right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey!"
Yet there is more. When Nathaniel the Prophet confronted David concerning his sin with Bathsheba
and the murder of her husband, he used the story of a rich man who stole from a
poor man, again in perfect
agreement with the words of Isaiah 10 - "and to take away the
right from the poor of my people." Here is the full text of the Prophet's encounter
with David (2 Samuel 12.1f):
And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him,
There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man
had exceeding many flocks and herds: But the
poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up:
and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and
drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a
traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd,
to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb,
and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan,
As the LORD liveth,
the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold,
because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of
the hand of Saul; And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and
gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have
given unto thee such and such things. Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD,
to do evil in his sight?
thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his
wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
And here we see the divine integration of the order of the Books of the Bible, the order of chapters of
Isaiah, and the order of the Ten Commandments. Here is the punishment meted out to David becuase
of his sin:
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and
hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before
thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the
sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel,
and before the sun. And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD.
Note the highlighted words. These all come from the Tenth Commandment! As it is written:
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife,
nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy
neighbour’s.
Searching the entire KJV for all verses containing the set {house, neighbour*, wife/wives} yields distinct
portions of Scripture: 1) The Tenth Commandment (Exo. 20.17 & Deut. 5.21) 2) 2 Samuel 12.11 (quoted above) and
3) Ezekiel 18 when God reiterates many commandments and declares each soul responsible for his own sin.
Thus we see that there is an extremely strong thematic link between the Tenth Commandment and the content
of the Tenth Book. It is not a KeyLink because of the off-spoke correlation with Ezekiel.
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