Here are five reasons why bathsheba was the victim in this story.
The name of the woman david saw on the roof.
2 and it came to pass in an eveningtide that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king s house.
3 and david sent and enquired after the woman.
David was immediately drawn to her and sent messengers to find out who she was.
And the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
2sam 11 2 king james version kjv the question is when david saw the woman bathing was he looking at a naked woman.
David while walking on the roof of his palace saw a very beautiful woman bathing.
The woman was very beautiful and david sent someone to find out about her.
And from the roof he saw a woman bathing a very beautiful woman.
2 samuel 11 2 4 one evening david got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace.
And from the roof he saw a woman washing herself.
David and bathsheba 1 in the spring at the time when kings march out to war david sent out joab and his servants with the whole army of israel.
Why ask the question.
David is relaxing and walking on the palace roof when he sees a beautiful woman bathing on her roof.
And from the roof he saw a woman washing herself 2 samuel 11 2 that s the biblical verse that immortalized this event.
David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king s house.
David was on the roof.
From the roof he saw a woman bathing.
And from the roof he saw a woman washing herself.
He ordered enquiries and found out that she was bathsheba wife of uriah.
A little vacation from war leads to a day spent in bed followed by a stroll along the roof of his palace as night begins to fall on jerusalem.
The story of david and bathsheba is not the story of a conniving seductress.
He desired her and later made her pregnant.
By chance david sees a woman bathing herself a sight which david fixes upon and then follows up on with an investigation as to her identity.
And it came to pass in an eveningtide that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king s house.
Certainly that is the case with king david.
3 so david.
But david remained at jerusalem.
2 sam 11 1 2 some might wonder how this was even possible.
They destroyed the ammonites and besieged rabbah but david remained in jerusalem.
And the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
David s first interactions with bathsheba are described in 2 samuel 11 and are omitted in the books of chronicles.
2 one evening david got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace.
The man said she is bathsheba the daughter of eliam and the wife of uriah the hittite then david sent messengers to get her.
And they ravaged the ammonites and besieged rabbah.
It is a story of a king who abused his power took advantage of a woman murdered her husband to cover it up and sinned against god.