Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone
back the ark and was dancing before the people near the palace in a linen ephod, Michal was watching from the palace. When David returned, she criticized his actions. We read in 2 Samuel 6:23, that from that moment forward, “Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.” It appears David completely cut off his relationship with her. Sometime after this incident the kings were at battle, and David was lying around the palace. He saw a woman bathing herself and invited her into his bed chamber. She was the wife of one of David’s mighty man, Uriah, who was a mighty warrior (2 Sam. 11). After she became pregnant, David called the husband from the front lines and told him to sleep with his wife, but his loyalty to David and the army of Israel was so strong he refused. After two attempts to get Uriah to do so, David then sent him to the front line, where the husband was slain. Why would a beautiful married woman engage in adultery with the king? Theology will suggest that God would not cover David’s sin, thus not allowing Uriah to sleep with his wife. This may be a correct observation; however, I also suggest that Uriah is an example of a husband who is too busy for his wife. If I were invited from a battlefield to stay two nights with my lovely wife, Pam, I would remain in the house and not come out for two days! Perhaps Bathsheba was like some wives today, desiring attention and not always getting it. David’s being estranged from his queen wife, Uriah being one of the chief soldiers, and the idle time on David’s hand formed a
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