Bathsheba

Later he gets distracted, falls for Bathsheba, gets her pregnant, has her husband murdered and then gradually sees his family fall apart.

To Mrs Warren’s credit I will say that she did step into the house and said ‘I sense a malignant presence in this house, her name is Bathsheba’.

While married, he engaged in an affair with Bathsheba which produced a pregnancy, followed by a whole slew of other problems.

David’s first child with Bathsheba dies, and the Bible tells us the child will not return to David, but David will one day, “go to him” (2 Samuel 12:23).

It’s Victorian Dorset, and headstrong Bathsheba has attracted three different suitors.

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These Psalms of David follow the events of his adultery with Bathsheba; his attempt to cover it up; and then when that didn’t work, his plan to have her husband, Uriah, murdered.

David commits adultery with Bathsheba and plots the death of her husband; for this Yahweh sends disasters against his house.

David's adultery with Bathsheba was only an opportunity to demonstrate the power of repentance, and the Talmud states that it was not adultery at all, quoting a Jewish practice of divorce on the eve of battle.

The betrayal of the Crooked Man is paralleled with David's betrayal of Uriah the Hittite, carried out in order to win Bathsheba.