The silliness of King David and the murder of Uriah the Hittite is one which has appeal to all, as males want to take the sexy young wife of some powerful man, and women want to be taken by some powerful man to humiliate their unappreciative husbands.
Added to this is the reality of lustful adulterous sex, a murdered husband beyond reproach and a pregnant wife, still desired by the adulterer, and the dead baby for emotional appeal......and then David's marriage to Bathsheba makes her the chosen one in mother of a future, kind is just the kind of slime people like before the judgment comes.
Bathsheba is fascinating in she was no Greek Cleopatra ruling Egypt. Powerful men of course wanted to mount the female leader of some nation and many did. Bathsheba though was just this young alluring child, who was married off to a foreigner in Uriah, who was one of the most powerful warriors in the army, and she did not put up any struggle in being summoned by the King in becoming his sorte.
She interests me, because it is one thing to take someone's wife and sex her. It is an entire another thing though to murder her husband to have her, after she is pregnant and to want the child too as David did.
David is the man who put away his first wife, who was Saul's daughter, over her mocking him as a pervert for dancing before God exposed. Yet with Bathsheba, David was moved to do things that were beyond reprehensible.
He did those things, and after her body was stretched out, he went right back to her and got her pregnant again. He did that at least 4 times in producing with her 4 more sons.
David had numerous wives and children, that caused all sorts of problems. He though was always previously the get them pregnant and then move on. There was never a Bathsheba in his reign who was such a focal point for numerous years.
It is recorded that David had "9 other sons" after the 4 listed with Bathsheba. There is no explanation if these are her 9 additional sons, as no other wives are listed......but there is listed specifically in Chronicles that he did have other children with concubines.
So whether 4 or 13 children, this Bathsheba held David's attention and she held the Prophet Nathan's attention as when a coup was in place by another of David's sons (The first born was killed by the second born for raping his half sister, and the second born was killed for treason in trying to take the kingdom from David), so when the time came for Solomon to be crowned, David was yet alive as an old man, and named Solomon Regent or King instead of David.
Bathshua was the granddaughter of David's most trusted adviser. Her father was the General of the Army's shield bearer, who was David's kindred. The Grandfather though sided in the treason of David's son, Absalom who was the son of the king of geshur's daughter, and still in that, David had no reservations in not only keeping Bathsheba around, but making certain their son was on the throne.
That is intriguing as she was a woman who had no problem betraying her husband. Her grandfather betrayed David, who was her husband, and probably did so because David disgraced his granddaughter, yet in all that betrayal, Bathsheba had sway over David from the first moment he spied her.
That is beyond lust. This Bathsheba had more presence than a centerfold appeal, and not of who she is, is ever revealed in Scripture.
It is amazing that in such treachery, of such chosen people, as David was a man after God's own heart, and God slammed David hard for his disgraceful conduct in judging him, to the beauty graced upon Bathsheba, that God had these things prevail.
There was no Angel sent to make David sleep a half hour in delaying him from seeing Bathsheba. Things played out as they did, as a reality must be examined in David's sons were horrid.
Amnon was a rapist. Absalom was a traitor. The third son tried to usurp the throne and Solmon killed him for it later.
Solomon the child that God loved, was a genius, man whore, who destroyed Israel and caused the nation to follow demons. Yes he was full of Wisdom as Lucifer was, but in the end he was not Proverbial, but Ecclesiastical in suffering from being a human to reveal the folly of not being a child of God.
His son was obnoxious and the child of a foreigner. Yes God has plans in all things, but the allure of Bathshua, who even God appears to have handled with deference, is one of the great mysteries in all of the favor King David had bestowed upon him as the lineage which brought forth Christ.
I will never understand God, so I do not try. Part of me in my lowly estate would like to have that kind of leniency upon my person again.
Bathshua must have been an exceptional woman to be esteemed as such a prize and to be afforded favor by God.
Such women though are best left as fantasies, as I know that looking upon Helen of Troy or Cleopatra, I would like Princess Diana, frown in thinking, "Well that is not much". Each though apparently has their moment and Bathsheba had her's as the woman after David's heart.
I wonder if she donates to blogs.
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