Warning Sign?

Then King David was told, “The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s household and everything he has because of the Ark of God.” So David went there and brought the Ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the City of David with a great celebration. [2 Samuel 6.12]

By this time, we are seeing some mistakes in David's life and reign as king. Was this another warning sign that David completely missed?

I am not trying to pick on David, but I am trying to take a serious look at his life to try to understand all the junk that surfaced as David aged.

If one looks at the scripture noted above, and takes off religious glasses to see it, it might look as if David became envious of Obed-edom! It is actually written right there that David's motivation for bringing the Ark to Jerusalem was NOT that God put it on David's heart, but, in fact, because David saw that Obed-edom was blessed!

I would be much more comfortable had it been recorded that David "heard from God" that the Ark should be moved to Jerusalem.

That said, with all the troubles David encountered to this point, we should give him the benefit of the doubt...

But then, in the midst of David's move of the Ark to Jerusalem, things go sideways with Michal his wife! Here is an interesting thought... why was Michal childless? I looked at several translations of 2 Samuel 6.23 and all that I saw simply said she was childless. None said God made her childless. Could her childless condition not have possibly been because her husband the king refused to sleep with her because she called him out on his neglect of her?

I am not trying to destroy the image of David here... but there are some questionable things going on, and, we have not yet even come to David's worst recorded indiscretion with Bathsheba that led to murder!

Father, I am seeing David's progression toward the event with Bathsheba in a different light this time reading through. Help me to take to heart - to take very seriously - the warning signs that David could have been encountering and overlooking...