It must be interesting to be among two women in history like none other in Helen of Troy and Bathsheba of Israel, to literally be the people who brought down kingdoms by the allure of men for them.
No one has ever told the story of Bathsheba, but I do so here now in things not known by Inspiration, in another exclusive by the Conduit of God.
Bathsheba was not a resident of Jerusalem or more proper, the City of David, but was a resident of Giloh, a city a few miles north of Hebron.
Her family and standing were unique in the warrior class which was King David's inner circle of mighty men, as her father was Eliam, named among the elite mighty men of Israel alongside David and her Grandfather was Ahithophel, the literal wisest counselor in all Israel who was David's trusted friend.
That is what is interesting in this, in King David had no idea who Bathsheba was when he saw her on her roof top the first time and inquired of her. It was the time of year when kings went to war, so Bathsheba's husband was away in battle, Uriah the Hittite.
As they had no children, it is the reality, that Uriah had recently in this warrior clan obtained the marriage rites to this young teenage girl come of age, and brought her to Jerusalem as his wife, and this is why David had never beheld her before.
It is a given in the world of kings, that if David had seen Bathsheba before, that he would have taken her as his wife, but in that is the most interesting of decisions in Eliam her father and Ahtihophel, her grandfather, in they had kept her at Giloh, and the marriage which was arranged was with a foreigner sojourning in Israel in Uhriah who had been attracted to join David's band of mighty men.
Having no support, and no family in Jerusalem, the young wife was left to herself as the events which would change Israel and the world would take place.
In visiting Bathsheba, who name means "daughter of an oath", pointing to this child was an apparent blessing of God in some promise fulfilled, and so named by her parents as such, she was a Judahite, given in marriage to a foreign mercenary working for the king, and it was a marriage of station in notable servants of the king, joining with other high ranking servants, in a caste system, which was not of love, but of duty.
Bathsheba in having a grandfather who was a genius and a father who was a military elite warrior, one can witness in her, that her form would have been that of an athlete and lithe, with a mind for intelligence, and men like that would have wed like women, so Bathsheba was a well rounded woman in all her family genetics afforded her.
In that reality, she had a knowledge of all she was and that confidence shown through. It was not for a woman to turn down a king when summoned to the palace. It also was a reality for a young woman that her allure in being the best would gravitate willingly to the best male in the kingdom and that would David.
I pass no judgment on Bathsheba as that is not my station. The first child she bore with David was killed by God for the purpose in there could be no doubt the child born to be Christ's forerunner was David's. Her sins were visited upon her as few women and who knows what one will do in the flow of life, unless they were there.
It would become worse for Bathsheba in one of David's sons, was prophesied to go into open rebellion against David, and almost murdered the King, and David had to flee with Bathsheba and their children.
It was a bloody civil war in which good men were slaughtered, the best in Israel, and it was because of actions far too many have indulged in.
It would result in time of her son, Solomon purging the throne, in more treason against him, and a time when another son of David by another wife, would have slaughtered Bathsheba and her children, that few women in history have endured so much in a life in personal tragedy and national calamity, in which they had to carry their entire lives.
In one of strange twists in this, her grandfather, would commit treason against David, her husband, literally placing a death sentence on Bathsheba if Absalom had been victorious in overthrowing the throne, and when Ahithophel was by God's Spirit in David, outsmarted in the rebellion, Ahithophel went home in humiliation, set his affairs in order and hanged himself.
The wisest counsel in Israel undone in folly for going against God's annoined one in a time of trouble.
Remarkably, it is considered that Ahithophel was the person spoken of in Psalm 41 in betraying David. This same verse:
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Would be quoted by Jesus, David's descendent concerning Judas in betraying our Lord.
So many duality principles are overlooked in the Bible. The first anti Christ or first Judas. Then there is Ruth the first of the redeemed gentiles of the Church in Christ's ancestry and then there is Bathsheba the first of the Church redeemed sold to a foreign husband, and both grafted in to be the mothers of Jesus, so that all would be welcome no matter state nor sin.
Bathsheba was a necessity of God's plan of redemption, as much as David the shepherd was grafted into Saul's household by Jonathan, and by the most heinous of sins, proving God's complete Mercy and Grace for the repentant.
She was a child of the oath, born in Giloh, the city of exile. She was and is the Mother of all the displaced tribes for their adultery in going after other gods. She is the Promise of redemption from Christ to the Father for every American who has prostituted themselves for that foreign political bastard called Barack Hussein Obama the blasphemous false messiah.
We are all children of the oath, and we are all born outside the Holy Land in exile. It will only be when each of us returns to the True Israelite King and is wed to Him as His Church, will we be where God intended us to be all along.
No one ever asks the questions of why was Bathsheba kept from being presented before King David in the city of exile when she would have been chosen to be a legal wife, and none of this upheaval would have happened.
The plans of men are not the plans of God, and God rectified those plans by implementing His own.
This is the story of Bath Sheba Giloh, the Daughter of the Oath in Exile.
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