I am just amazed at the bloodshed in 1 Kings 8. I have no idea how so many animals could be sacrificed.

1Kings 8:62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.
1Kings 8:63 Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty [...]

In 2 Samuel 12, God sent Nathan to confront David with his sin. It must have been really hard to tell a king as powerful as David these things. Nathan was wise in the way that he approached David. He gave him a parable that described exactly what David had done. David agreed that it [...]