2 Samuel 11 · a question people ask
How could "a man after his own heart" do this?
The Bible doesn't hide it, and it doesn't explain it away. Samuel had told Saul, "The LORD has sought for himself a man after his own heart" (1 Samuel 13:14), and in Acts Paul says that God testified of David, "I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will" (Acts 13:22). This chapter tells what David did and ends with "But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD" (11:27). 1 Kings says both things together: "David did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite" (1 Kings 15:5). A psalm is titled "A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba" (Psalm 51:1), and in it David says, "Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight" (Psalm 51:4).
The verses
“But now your kingdom will not continue. The LORD has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which the LORD commanded you.””
“When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’”
“When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.”
“because David did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”