No. David acted fast enough to make Bath-Sheba a widow and marry her to cover his rape. Remember, that legally he should have been stoned as well.
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No. David acted fast enough to make Bath-Sheba a widow and marry her to cover his rape. Remember, that legally he should have been stoned as well.
That's actually a good nitpick. The scriptures don't say anything about an arena. But there is this:
Acts 26:10,
Which thing I (Paul) also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
It doesn't say exactly how or where they they were put to death, just that they were put to death for their belief in such a strange (to them - 1 Cor 2:14) God as that of the father of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
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What about him fighting in wars?
To me, the idea of killing people in battle, not just the fact that some are conscripted but the fact that the people who die lose their future chance of ever getting saved, just for the selfish temporal motive land or some other motive, seems terrible.
When A Sinner Goes To Hell. . .
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Implying what? He used his kingly authority to get bathseba into the horrific situation in the first place.
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David might (or might not) have fully understood that (look back at the "counting the troops" incident), but it's very likely the people didn't fully understand it.
If David had fully understood it, he would not have called Bath-sheba to his palace. If the people fully understood it, they'd have told him, "No, king" on a number of occasions.
But remember that the role of "king" was not fully defined in the law. Most people probably didn't know where on a command-by-command basis where the king's authority stopped--and most importantly, if the king knew where his authority stopped.
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Understanding it and following it are 2 different things. Self-deception is yet another.
When confronted by Nathan he certainly understood it and repented on the spot.
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"Full" understanding would mean understanding it all the time. From the time David saw Bath-sheba to the time he ordered Uriah's assassination, I feel certain at some point his conscience told him he was in the wrong before Nathan had to tell him.
If not...he was certainly far from God. But I don't think he was ever so far from God that his conscience was seared. I think like most of us most of the time, we know what God wants us to do...we just don't want to do it.
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How did the fact that David forced her prevented her from claiming innocence? What You Need to Know About Bathsheba - The Junia Project
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David's story is apparently that there was no intercourse between them at all.
But as I said before, there is little modern understanding of the power of ancient kings--whether a woman's accusation against one would have gotten any hearing whatsoever. Moreover, in David's time there was still little protocol surrounding the crown--they were all rather still playing it by ear.
What was clear is that when the king said, "Kill that man," the man was immediately killed, no question asked.
Maybe she could have tried throwing herself upon the altar at the tabernacle, but as we later see with Joab, it was within the king's power to slay even someone at the altar.
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Interesting post.
I could almost view the Saul shown in Acts as similar to that of Saul in 1 Samuel.
Even got the same name until his name got changed to Paul.......
1 Samuel 19:
1 Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David 2 and warned him, “My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there
Acts 7:58
and they cast Stephen out of the city and stoned him.
And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Acts 8:1
Now Saul was consenting to his death.
At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
3 As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.
9:1Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Isa 22:22
The key of the house of David I will lay on His shoulder;
So He shall open, and no one shall shut; And He shall shut, and no one shall open.
Rev 3:7
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”:[fn]
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Uriah, as a male and a general, could have entered a charge. Moreover, Bath-Sheba's father was also one of David's generals and Bath-Sheba's grandfather was one of David's advisers. All three of them would have been involved in that charge.
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