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Sue Schlesman Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer 2021 11 Feb
The story of David and Bathsheba is not a love story or at least it didn t start that way. It is told in the book of 2 Samuel 11. Here’s the plot summary, and it’s spicy enough for any Netflix series: King David stays home when he’s supposed to go to war. He can’t sleep (maybe because he’s not fulfilling his purpose?), so he goes for a walk on the roof. He sees a beautiful woman bathing in the next house. He asks someone who she is (“She’s Bathsheba, married to Uriah, one of your elite fighting men”). He sends for her and has sexual relations with her, knowing it s wrong. She finds out she’s pregnant. David sends for Bathsheba’s husband to come home to try to cover up his sin. He talks to Uriah about the battle and sends him home so he’ll sleep with his wife and the affair will be hidden. But Uriah is a man of integr