Getting Bathsheba News Today

Everything hes heard in terms of gods commandments. >> he says shes hot and i want that, bring me that. and his henchmen go, bring him bathsheba. >> and so that eye leads him to the act of adultery. and when the woman says i am pregnant, he goes deeper and deeper into the darkness. >> reporter: and here is where the bible becomes a little like "pulp fiction." king david tried to cover his tracks by getting bathshebas husband uriah drunk. >> in the hopes that uriah will immediately bed his wife a...

>> davids sins impact his children and his grandchildren all the way down. >> davids sons have grown up learning how to deal with women from their father. two of davids sons grow up to be rapists. >> reporter: and indeed, david it did suffer the consequences of his actions. >> the child hes conceived with bathsheba dies. and he mourns and mourns and mourns. and again, you get the old attractive lovely david again. >> we have to look at david in both ways. he rose to the height of power, and he s...

Thats all over our world today. >> reporter: but this bible story is also a cautionary tale. >> davids sins impact his children and his grandchildren all the way down. >> davids sons have grown up learning how to deal with women from their father. two of davids sons grow up to be rapists. >> reporter: and indeed, david it did suffer the consequences of his actions. >> the child hes conceived with bathsheba dies. and he mourns and mourns and mourns. and again, you get the old attractive lovely da...

"pulp fiction." king david tried to cover his tracks by getting bathshebas husband uriah drunk. >> in the hopes that uriah will immediately bed his wife and be none the wiser. all does not go according to plan. david has uriah killed. and then brings bathsheba to live with him. >> reporter: the intimate details of davids personal life are unlike anything else found in the bible. >> and that suggests that some of the text is extremely ancient and may be based on an actual memoir of his court beca...