2 Samuel 12:1-31
John 16:1-33
Psalm 119:65-80
Proverbs 16:4-5
Question of the day: Why would God kill a child for David's sin?
It seems wrong to us that God would punish the innocent for something they did not do, but it's not the first time that children were killed for the sin of their fathers. In Exodus, God allowed the first born of the Egyptians to die to prove his superiority to Pharaoh. In the Old Testament, under the old covenant, God took sin personally and answered evil with action. In both these cases, God punished the fathers by taking from them something valuable. In David's situation, the child represented the sin that David had committed, and God took matters to rectify the situation.
This also foreshadows the ultimate incident of the innocent dying for the guilty, when Christ died on the cross for us. Under the new covenant, God permits the consequences of the sin to play out. He doesn’t actively punish one person’s sin by taking the life of another. Jesus took the sin of the world on his sinless person when he died. But that was God himself taking the punishment, not his punishing someone else.
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