Psalm 51 is written when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had slept with Bathsheba. This is a passage was to ask for the forgiveness, and mercy of God for what he has done to God, Bathsheba and Uriah the hittite. Uriah the hittite was one of the soldiers of David, a very noble man. One day David woke up in the night went on the roof and saw Bathsheba bathing. He made a servant fetch her and he slept with her. Few days later he had told him she is pregnant so in order to keep his sin a secret …show more content…
The preceding context said that David has sinned against God. The context following this passage is that David is asking God for forgiveness, and mercy for his actions against God, Bathsheba and Uriah the hittite. The teaching of this passage is that whenever we sin we ask God the cleanse us. “We must go to God for cleansing from sin.” (Omar C. Garcia). Psalm 51 is similar to many Old Testament ,and New Testament verses. One Old testament is “Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit!” (Ezekiel 18:31). One New Testament is “and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” (Colossians 3:10). These are similar because they show how God has cleansed us. Two important words are “transgressions”, and “blot out”. Blot out means the removing a written record. David uses “blot out” to tell God to remove the record of his sin so that he may be forgiven. Transgressions is an act that goes against law. David was condemned by God because of his transgressions which led him to create Psalm