Wednesday Bible Study: The worst person in the world

God loves it when David is slaughtering and raping and enslaving people who aren ' t Israelites, but now David does something God doesn ' t like. I do agree it ' s really bad. In a nutshell, he sees a woman he fancies, he rapes her and gets her pregnant, then he tries to get her husband to have sex with her so the pregnancy won ' t be suspicious, and when that doesn ' t work, he has the guy killed. Then he marries the woman, which is another way of saying he rapes her whenever he wants since she obviously has no choice in the matter. So yeah, this displeases the Lord.  BTW, the RSV headline for this chapter is " David commits adultery. " No, he commits rape.11 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Jo ′ab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king ’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.3 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathshe′ba, the daughter of Eli′am, the wife of Uri′ah the Hittite?”4 So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her.He ' s the king, right? It ' s not as though she has a choice in the matter. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.)Evidently he saw her do...
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