When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?” Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.” Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”
Comment: Having done all that he could so that the baby would be able to be called Uriah’s, and having failed David had to confess or think of another strategy. Knowing people I’m sure that there would have been people willing to carry a chemical (natural plants) or interfering abortion but that was not considered. It would have put Bathsheba’s life in danger! So as Commander-in-Chief he planned murder knowing that Joab, Commander at the battle site, was his man!
Prayer: Pointing my finger at David, makes me remember my own failures. Please remember not my past, thank You for Jesus’ sacrifice.
As I read it! 
Thank you Barry for your comments on this passage. Thank you too for the prayer at the end. That was my heartfelt prayer too. (Also, if Bathsheba had had an abortion, that would have been murder as well.)
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Thank you, Marion. I cannot understand how people cannot see abortion as murder! My nature is such that I have to keep the prayer constantly on my own lips! Glad that you are a bit better!
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