David And Nathan Analysis

The story of David and Nathan began in the middle east, when David saw a young woman bathing. David wanted this young woman and she is the wife of Uriah. The young woman had conceived a child with David. When David got word, he sent word for Uriah to come home from the battlefield. I think David thought he could make it right by offering Nathan to sleep with his wife, but he refused to go home, which left David in a pickle. David sent a note to Joab, with Uriah. It read “ Station Uriah in the thick of the fight and then fall back behind him so that he may be struck down and die.” (22) Uriah was killed in the battlefield. After his wife heard, she dealt with her mourning. David sent word for her to come live with him and be his wife. The things that he had done made Yahweh (the God) very unhappy. Yahweh sent Nathan to tell David a story.
One day a rich man came along and took the poor man’s lamb. This was the only lamb the poor man had; he had watched this lamb grow and become apart of his family. The rich man ended up eating the poor man’s lamb; as …show more content…
He wanted David to see it from a different point of view. He basically had a birds eye view of the story. David did not know either person in the story, so he was able to remove all of his feelings and see things differently. He saw it as the rich man wrongly taking the poor man’s only lamb. The rich man need to be punished. When Nathan said “You are the man” (22), it had awakened David. He was the rich man that had done someone else wrong. David had felt differently after this moment.David may not be able to change the things that he had done but the experience of the situation had changed him and this would be something that will always stay with him; as the book states “ But the religious experience of awakening to universal compassion for all beings contains an ‘inner law’ and ‘inner logic’ that David for instance, experiences and cannot forget.”