2 Samuel 11:13

13. He made him drunk Hoping thus to unman him, that he might forget or neglect his resolution to stay away from home.

But went not down to his house “The providence of God is here manifest,” says Bishop Hervey, “defeating David’s base contrivances, and bringing his sin to the open light. It is no less clear how mercy was at the bottom of this severity, which issued in David’s deep repentance, and has also given to the Church one of the most solemn and searching warnings as to the evil of sin which is contained in the whole Bible.”