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D&C 132:39 · 1 Kings 15:5

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 132:39
"in none of these things did he sin against me save in the case of Uriah and his wife"
Old Testament 1 Kings 15:5
"Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite."

The shared contiguous run is two words, 'of Uriah'; this note states that rather than letting the tier imply a quotation. What carries the pairing is the clause shape, identical in both: an unqualified statement that David did not sin, immediately qualified by 'save' plus a naming of Uriah. Searched over the corpus, that exception formula stands at exactly these two verses; the name Uriah stands at twenty-five distinct frozen verses, the bulk of them the narrative of 2 Samuel 11-12, and no other verse in the corpus puts the name inside an exception clause about David. Divergences reported, not graded: the history names the man by nation ('Uriah the Hittite') where the revelation names him by the relationship the exception turns on ('Uriah and his wife'); the history's scope is everything David was commanded, the revelation's is the wives and concubines only; and the history stops at the exception where the revelation states a consequence it does not carry, 'therefore he hath fallen from his exaltation, and received his portion'. asserted_by is wiki: the verse names persons (Uriah, Nathan), not a book, chapter, or verse, and names neither as the source of any wording. Whether this verdict on David can be held together with Jacob 2:24's is the question left open at w6-dc132-wives-concubines-jacob2 and is not settled here.

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