Bathsheba Overpowering The Innocent

Overpowering the Innocent What would happen if there were modern courts during biblical times? If there were modern courts then a jury would have been tasked with deciding who was guilty in the rape and murder case involving King David and Bathsheba. The jury would need to read the text that describes the events very deeply and in a detailed manner before they came to a conclusion. In the case of the Bathsheba incident they would need to read 2 Samuel 11 and 2 Samuel 12. The jury would find Bathsheba innocent of any wrong doing because she was under the control of the powerful king David, she had no choice but to act as she did, and she did not initiate any of the violence that occurred. David was guilty of rape and murder because he was in control the entire time. Bathsheba is innocent because her actions were always dictated by the outstanding amount of power David had over her and Uriah. David always had power over

Some scholars would argue that “Bathsheba yearned for the power and glory of becoming the wife of a king” (Kim and Nyengele 99). Bathsheba was not looking for power because her husband was already an elite solider as a part of an elite military unit. There is also no evidence that her and Uriah were struggling to have kids, so she did not need David to have children. We also see her grieve and mourn the death of her husband. “When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him” (2 Samuel 11:26). We can believe this to be genuine because the author choose to include it even though he left many other things out. According to Kim and Nyengele, “Her grieving could also be viewed as psychological proof of her innocence” (Kim and Nyengele 107). She would not grieve or it would not have been genuine had she been the mastermind behind the plot. She did not order to murder of her husband because she loved him and didn’t want him to