As I process David's sin both with Bathsheeba and the census, God shows mercy to David. What is interesting is how others suffer for David' sin. His son Absalom temporarily takes the throne and has sex with ten concubines in the open. After Absalom is killed they are housed separately for the rest of their lives. The result sounds more like quarantine, but perhaps a way to handle the trauma they experienced. Hard to say why they were put in isolation, but they were taken care of. When he takes the census for determining the number of possible soldiers for the army, the judment resulted in 70,000 of the people are killed by an angel. I always wondered how an angel actually carries out the killing. The bible really does not make it clear. Sin takes you where you do not really want to go and it costs you more than you really want to pay. Yet David is untouched by his sin. He dies a natual death. So how does God's judgment system work? David had two chances to kill Saul and left Saul's fate into God's hands. When a person (actually falsely) tried to claim that he killed Saul (hoping for some kind of reward), David executed him. He had a sense of givìng some events to God. When he fled from Absalom one of Saul's family threw dust at him and cursed him. He could have easily executed the man, but stated that perhaps God sent him. David seemed to have mercy at the strangest situations. God looked at his heart and had compassion on him.
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