possessions that, if you want it, you take it. >> i know we want to think, today, of women having complete agency and stuff like that but it didn't work like that in the ancient world. women were dependents. >> bathsheba has no right to tell the king no when he calls for her. she has to go because that is the king of israel. and so, we don't get to hear from the narrative what she's feeling and what she's thinking. in the course of what happens with bathsheba, the rape that she endures by king david, she becomes pregnant. >> david realizes that he has a problem.