The knowledge should have been a door closing. Instead, David sent messengers to bring her. It was a command disguised as a summons. A king does not ask. Bathsheba came. And the king took her.
When she returned to her house, she carried with her a secret. Weeks later, a message arrived for the king: “I am with child.” samuel 11
He wrote a letter. In it were these words: “Set Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is fiercest. Then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die.” The knowledge should have been a door closing
Her name was Bathsheba. He learned that quickly enough from a servant. She was the daughter of Eliam, and the wife of Uriah the Hittite—one of his own elite soldiers, a loyal warrior even now camped before the gates of Rabbah. A king does not ask
He sealed the letter with his own royal signet. Then he called Uriah back. “Carry this dispatch to Joab,” David said, looking the loyal soldier in the eye. “Go with courage.”
But the Lord saw.