David was told "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittie?" These two men were friends with David as well as commanders in his army. That should have stopped everything right there but it did not. King David saw something he wanted and he took it. This was a tremendous misuse of power as well as breaking the laws of God. Adultery! What was David thinking? David knew this was wrong, yet he did it. It's hard to explain David's thinking here, because he wasn't thinking. He acted on feeling and impulse instead of thinking. If David thought about all this, he would see that the cost was so much greater than he wanted to consider at the time. If David knew that this illicit pursuit of pleasure would directly or indirectly result in: An unwanted pregnancy; the murder of a trusted friend; A dead baby; His daughter raped by his son; One son murdered by another son; A civil war led by one of his sons; A son who imitates David's lack of self-control and it leads him and much of Israel away from God. .
In reading 2 Samuel 11:4 NIV, "Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her (She had purified herself from her uncleanness." This indicated that she had prepared herself for him and knew what was to come. This also informs the reader that she had cleansed herself from her menstrual cycle and was not pregnant at the time. In reading about David and Bathsheba, I found that there are others who think that Bathsheba was right where she wanted to be when David was on the roof of the palace. Other commentary that stated that she was a visitor of the palace on a regular basis and that she was the one who pursued the King. None of them had anything to back up what these statements. While reading from History of the Jews, Graetz states, "Carried away by his passion, he sent messengers to command her to repair to the palace, and Bathsheba obeyed" (Graetz, 1891, p.
