Bathsheba

A women labeled an adulteress, a womanizer by many but by God, a queen in the making.  She was targeted.  By today's standards she was a victim of sexual harassment and assault.  David not being where he should be, at war with all the other men of the kingdom, was able to be a modern-day peeping tom.  He saw something beautiful and forbidden and did whatever it took to make it his, even murder.   Bathsheba was plucked from her home, forced to have relations with the king and then impregnated by him.   Bathsheba... was forever changed by taking a "bath".   Davids's deceit continues to deepen when sends her husband away to be killed making her free and no one the wiser of their adultery.  

Lets face it, sin never stays hidden.   Bathsheba was then forced into a marriage, one unsolicited and unwanted.  Not even given time to mourn her husband's death she moves in and becomes queen.   As a consequence to his sin, David and Bathsheba lose their first child.  Thankfully, because of a close friend, Nathan, and his willingness to call David out, realization and repentance to God brings David back to God and His grace.     

David and Bathsheba are then blessed with the wisest king in history as a son, Solomon.   We never get to hear much from Bathsheba, never get her side of the story or the emotions and pains she went through, but her story does have a beautiful ending.  She was queen, and the mother of wisdom.

Scripture: 2 Samuel 11, 12 , Psalm 51, 1 Kings 1-3:15