David and Nathan

"And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband. And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house and she became his wife and bear him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord." (the Hebrew text has it: "was evil in the sight of the Lord). 2 Sam. 11:26-27 David was telling himself that he had no sin. The text reveals the reasoning by which he strove to overturn the accusations of his conscience....