The Bible teaches that adultery always leads to murder or death, in some shape or form, whether spiritual, physical, or both. It also resulted in YHUH striking the child who came forth from David’s sinful passions with an illness that would take their child’s life in his first week of life. So not one, but two deaths resulted from David’s sin with Bathsheba. In this example, David’s adultery with Bathsheba led to murder, resulting in the shedding of Uriah’s blood. Even King David needed a reminder that he could not hide his sin from YHUH, that what was in the dark would come to light. He forgot that YHUH sees and knows all. We’ve all done it, we’ve lied to ourselves and others and pretended our sins would not be found out, and the truth often comes out with a pregnancy. This was a very obvious case of adultery, so why did King David need Nathan the Prophet to come and inform David that he was guilty of this sexual sin, his adultery with Bathsheba, Uriah’s lamb? Didn’t David KNOW he was guilty of adultery? Did he not know the Torah? Did he not understand it? He knew and understood what his guilt was, otherwise, he wouldn’t have had Uriah killed in an attempt to hide his sin. Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” 2 Samuel 12:1-7 Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.ĭavid burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as YHUH lives, the man who did this must die! He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.” Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought.

When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor.

She became pregnant while her husband was gone, so in an attempt to hide his sin, David ordered Uriah to be brought home from battle so Uriah could have relations with his wife, so that everyone would think Uriah was the father of the child and David’s sin would not be known. Uriah, being a man of principle, would not go home and have relations with his wife while his comrades were still at war. David then ordered that Uriah be sent to the front lines to be killed by the enemy in battle so that everyone would think Uriah had been with his wife while he was on the break from war, and that the child was Uriah’s. So David had sexual relations with Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba, while Uriah was at battle. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her and she came in unto him, and he lay with her for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. And David sent and enquired after the woman. In this day and age especially, not all judgments on sexual sin, specifically, adultery, are as cut and dry as the following scenario:Īnd it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. In a world where Biblical terms and concepts are continually and increasingly being stretched beyond their original intended boundaries, added to, and even redefined, for example, how many women a man can marry, whether two people of the same gender can enter into a marriage union, or whether sex makes two people married, it’s all the more imperative that we question and closely re-examine what society says constitutes a marriage relationship, and what actions can violate it, through a Biblical lens. If you’ve ever been married, or even ENGAGED, there’s a pretty good chance, both statistically and Biblically, that you, your spouse, fiancé, or your “ex”, may have been involved in adultery, and may still be. If so, there’s still hope those guilty of this sin can be reconciled to YHUH, read on to find out how…

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