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Did Bathsheba want to have sex with David?
The answer to your question is a probable yes. First of all, Bethsheba's husband had been away for untold months at war. David, even though he was about 40 years old at this time, was a good looking guy (as stated in 1 Samuel 16). Third, he's the flippin king of Israel! What woman nowadays has not had some fantasy about some celebrity guy in the news, but David was the king, and still a rather youthful king. Added to that, there are absolutely no records of Bathsheba putting up any protest or any resistance whatsoever. So from all of the peripherals just stated above we can assume that Bathsheba might have had the slightest temptation to go to bed with the king. ManofRenown87 04:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
The description you quoted may not be a reliable indicator of his appearance when he met Bathsheba - it is written in 1 Samuel in the passage describing his appearance when he was anointed king as a probably teenage shepherd boy. In the intervening years he probably acquired a beard and maybe battle scars if his campaigns listed are anything to go by. Cloptonson ( talk) 21:07, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
I just reverted an edit by User:SamuelTheGhost. Rather than restating the Biblical account, I believe that more information relating to the "Hittite" designation of Uriah, which is found in the Bible, can be drawn from scholarly sources. WBardwin ( talk) 23:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
It's now over five weeks since I first took exception to the phrase "but particularly since after the collapse of the Hittite Kingdom" which you seem so determined to include, and you haven't come up with any evidence for it in that time. I want it out for two reasons:
You've asked for patience, and I've been patient, but is not wikipedia policy that one editor can insist on the retention of fanciful ideas in an article on the off chance that someone else will happen to be able to substantiate them. I'm happy to use {{fact}} where proper evidence has not been supplied but there's still reason to believe it exists, but this is not such a case. SamuelTheGhost ( talk) 21:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
With reference to the recent reversions between me and Keith H.:
On related point, why should there be a "probably" about Uriah being an ethnic Hittite? Surely a Hittite was a Hittite? If there are citeable alternative theories about his origins, I would not be unhappy to see them mentioned. Cloptonson ( talk) 20:50, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Just like the rest of the bible this is pure fiction.
I am oll 82.12.81.97 ( talk) 15:39, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
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Did Bathsheba want to have sex with David?
The answer to your question is a probable yes. First of all, Bethsheba's husband had been away for untold months at war. David, even though he was about 40 years old at this time, was a good looking guy (as stated in 1 Samuel 16). Third, he's the flippin king of Israel! What woman nowadays has not had some fantasy about some celebrity guy in the news, but David was the king, and still a rather youthful king. Added to that, there are absolutely no records of Bathsheba putting up any protest or any resistance whatsoever. So from all of the peripherals just stated above we can assume that Bathsheba might have had the slightest temptation to go to bed with the king. ManofRenown87 04:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
The description you quoted may not be a reliable indicator of his appearance when he met Bathsheba - it is written in 1 Samuel in the passage describing his appearance when he was anointed king as a probably teenage shepherd boy. In the intervening years he probably acquired a beard and maybe battle scars if his campaigns listed are anything to go by. Cloptonson ( talk) 21:07, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
I just reverted an edit by User:SamuelTheGhost. Rather than restating the Biblical account, I believe that more information relating to the "Hittite" designation of Uriah, which is found in the Bible, can be drawn from scholarly sources. WBardwin ( talk) 23:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
It's now over five weeks since I first took exception to the phrase "but particularly since after the collapse of the Hittite Kingdom" which you seem so determined to include, and you haven't come up with any evidence for it in that time. I want it out for two reasons:
You've asked for patience, and I've been patient, but is not wikipedia policy that one editor can insist on the retention of fanciful ideas in an article on the off chance that someone else will happen to be able to substantiate them. I'm happy to use {{fact}} where proper evidence has not been supplied but there's still reason to believe it exists, but this is not such a case. SamuelTheGhost ( talk) 21:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
With reference to the recent reversions between me and Keith H.:
On related point, why should there be a "probably" about Uriah being an ethnic Hittite? Surely a Hittite was a Hittite? If there are citeable alternative theories about his origins, I would not be unhappy to see them mentioned. Cloptonson ( talk) 20:50, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Just like the rest of the bible this is pure fiction.
I am oll 82.12.81.97 ( talk) 15:39, 12 June 2023 (UTC)