David, the first king of a united Israel, conqueror of an empire running from the edge of Egypt to the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq, is one of the Bible's greatest heroes.

Thanks for joining us, and a special welcome to first-time readers. Today we study 2 Samuel 11, the story of David and Bathsheba, one of the most famous and dramatic chapters in the Old Testament ...

Some have claimed that David’s coercion was not physical (though it could have been; the Bible does not say). Bathsheba could have defied the king’s order — just as Shadrach, Meshach and ...

The Hebrew Bible perhaps considers no woman as beautiful or as involved in a sex scandal as King David's most famous wife, Bathsheba. The text goes out of its way ...

When he piously refuses to come, David has him killed and takes Bathsheba into his harem. For me, the clincher is this: The narrator is unequivocal in blaming David (2 Sam. 11:27).

Some have claimed that David’s coercion was not physical (though it could have been; the Bible does not say). Bathsheba could have defied the king’s order — just as Shadrach, Meshach and ...

David and Bathsheba marry, ... Evangelical readers of Christianity Today similarly took it in stride when a 2015 column on sexual violence in the Bible ran under the headline “David Was a Rapist ...

Fiction: David, Bathsheba and Sir Thomas Wyatt. A brilliant novel of adultery, penitence and psalmistry with a curious double focus—the courts of King David and Henry VIII. By .