King David's Affair With Bathsheba

In the beginning of the book, David seemed like a rude, ignorant and negative child. All he ever did was argue and disagree with Elizabeth which was partially because David thought he was a know it all that was better than everybody else. In a few situations, David kept bringing up the fact that he did not need a babysitter, which proved

In 2 Samuel the narrative shifts to the reign of David as he rises above Saul’s son Ish-bosheth to become the king, first of Judah and then of all the tribes of Israel (5:1–4). The book records David’s wars of conquest including the capture of Jerusalem and the relocation of the ark of the covenant to the City of David (6:1–19). But the author also records David’s failures: his adultery with Bathsheba (11:1–26), Absalom’s rebellion (15:1–18:30), Sheba’s revolt (20:1–26), and the disastrous census (24:1–25). Like all the prophetic writers, the author presents a portrait of his historical figures from the perspective of their faithfulness to God’s covenant.

Different women, but each was powerful in their own way. When Nathan realized David’s throne was being seized by a usurper, he went to Bathsheba. No where does it mention Solomon’s involvement in any of this intrigue until he is put on David’s mule and anointed king by Zadok the priest. When Adonijah (the usurper) realized his life was in danger he pleaded his case to Bathsheba. Although this turned out badly for him (1 Kings 2: 18-15) he recognized her power. She was a dominant force David’s life and loved and respected by Solomon.

However, throughout David’s leadership, there were a few mishaps where he did not always do the right thing. He committed a sin by having an affair with Bathsheba, who was married to her husband Uriah. Also, here performed an unauthorized census, which was motivated by his own pride. In addition, he chose to follow his own heart a lot instead of being a man after God’s heart. Regardless of his flaws, David had a great sensibility of courage, loyalty, faith, being a successful leader, and warrior. For example, David could look someone else’s sins that they may have done, but he could not do the same for himself. Basically, David loved his enemies and respected them, which was not a normal character trait to have. He was always willing to forgive them of their sins even when they typically opposed him.

Uriah refused to go home to his wife, so David sent Uriah to the front lines of battle, where he was killed. David then married Bathsheba. When confronted by Nathan the prophet, David admitted his sin. In punishment, Bathsheba’s child died and David was cursed with the promise of a rebellion from within his own house. Bathsheba and David soon conceived a second son, Solomon.

Bathsheba and Nathan the prophet were the moving impendence for David to fulfill his promised/duty.

The most notable example is his affair with Bathsheba, whom he saw bathing upon the rooftops one night. David knew that Bathsheba was marrie to Uriah, one of his military leaders. But he nevertheless sent for her and committed adultery with her, and from this sin a child was conceived. At first, David tried to cover his indiscretion and bade Uriah to go to his wife in the hopes that they would lie together and the baby might be passed off as Uriah's. However, when Uriah refused to go to his wife, David had him killed, and took Bathsheba to be his own wife. As a result of these sins, God was greatly displeased with David, and punished him with the death of his first son. Like his father before him, King Solomon also had troubles with women; namely that he married too many of them. Though God granted him with wisdom beyond all other men, Solomon fell to the sins of the flesh. According to 1 Kings 11:1, he loved "many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites." These were women from tribes whom God had expressly forbidden the Israelites from mixing with for the purposes that they were tribes who worshipped false gods and idols, and would surely turn the Israelites away from their faith in the One True God. Samuel had "seven hundred wives,

1 Kings 1-14 – At this point in Scripture, David is very old and the debate over who will succeed him as king over Israel is at the fore. In a cunning move, Bathsheba and Nathan collaborate to convince David to appoint his son Solomon over Israel and not Adonijah. After Solomon establishes his new kingdom, Israel experiences a golden age with the building of the Temple for YHWH, as well as the peace that they experience in the land, along with the accumulation of wealth on the part of Solomon. Peace and prosperity do not last for Solomon, however, because some of the women that he has joined himself to turn him away from following YHWH wholeheartedly. As a punishment, YHWH strips the throne from Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, and leaves him with

We have heard the story of David and Bathsheba many, many times before; but have you ever thought of King David (man after God’s own heart) as being a sinful and wicked

Bathsheba became pregnant and David tried to hide his sin, instead of accepting and confessing to God what he had done, he calls Uriah and asks him to go sleep with his wife to cover up that the child she was waiting was Uriah’s son and not David’s. Uriah does not accept to do what David and, David takes Uriah and sends him to the front of the battle so he can get killed. The big problem here is that God was watching what David was doing, he knew his heart, then send the prophet Nathan to confront him and David recognizes that he has sin. Nathan tells him that God will not punish him with eternal sin, which is death.

Nathan was David's trust royal adviser and Prophet of God. The main mistake Nathan made was being to anxious to build the Lord's Temple without talking to God. However he showed great courage when he confronted David about his sin and how he needed to make things right. Nathan was the one who told David that his child he had with Bathsheba was going to die. Nathan was a good prophet who was the one of the main controls that God had in David's life. Nathan didn’t make very many mistakes in his life and he he had a giant impact on David's Life.

Living almost a century apart, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy each explore similar themes of love through strong female characters. While society strove to keep women’s value directly tied to their marital status, Austen and Hardy wrote the stories of characters who defied these expectations. Bathsheba Everdene of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd is a fiery young woman who inherits a farm, and Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is an educated woman who prides herself on speaking her mind regardless of the consequences. Both women are of marrying age, and both novels feature their romantic exploits. Besides their differing socio-economic and temporal settings, Bathsheba’s and Elizabeth’s behaviors indicate that they are facing similar feelings and conflicts when it comes to issues of love and marriage. Bathsheba goes to greater lengths to defy societal pressures than Elizabeth does, but Bathsheba’s circumstances warrant the effort. The real difference between these characters is the way in which they are written. One could not know how similar Bathsheba’s thoughts and feelings are to Elizabeth’s, because the reader rarely sees through Ms. Everdene’s eyes. Bathsheba Everdene is the greater feminist heroine when taken alongside Elizabeth Bennet; however, Hardy writes her story almost exclusively from the perspective of his male characters, leaving her represented as two-dimensional in comparison to

The Wife of Bath takes on the role of appearing as a stubborn, valiant woman of her time. As a character of The Canterbury Tales, she attracts quite a bit of attention. She lives as a seamstress but remains extremely familiar with the role of a wife. The Wife of Bath has engaged herself in five marriages, making her proficient in the profession of love. She uses her own experiences with her husbands to give others advice. Throughout the tale, the Wife of Bath shows sexual immorality, arrogance, and manipulative characteristics making her an impostores woman.

His disdain toward her surpassed the love he had previously felt toward her” (13:12-13:15 p 17). Tamar’s rape by her half-brother Amnon is a method for God’s revenge as the scenario changed and now David’s family was raped due to lust. Likewise, the Oresteia utilizes a prophet to illustrate the mistakes and repercussions characters face. Similar to David, Agamemnon demonstrates exorbitant selflessness as he decides to place a value his daughter’s life. As a result, Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia for better winds.

Solomon was the son of Bathsheba, who was the granddaughter of Ahithophel the Gilonite whose husband was Uriah the Hittite, and he was a mixed Canaanite son of David (2 Samuel 11:2-3; 23:34; Matthew 1:1-6). After David had killed her husband Uriah and impregnated Bathsheba, the Lord sent Nathan to the house of David, who told him that the child will die, and the Lord struck the child which was bore out of adultery and he died (2 Samuel 12:1-19). David prayed, fasted and worshiped the Lord, and the Lord had mercy on him and gave him Solomon who prophet Nathan called Jedidiah, because the Lord loved Solomon, he was beloved of the Lord (2 Samuel 12:20-25). Solomon made mention of his skin complexion in his writings, he said I am black, and comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar. The word Kedar, which was used here means black. Solomon had used the blackness of Kedar to describe his skin complexion. Some scholars stated that this was a poetic word that referred to one of his black lover. However, this poetic songs does not only