One day while David sat in his palace, he noticed a beautiful woman, Bathsheba, bathing on her rooftop. When David consulted one of his servants, he found that she was married to Uriah, but this didn't keep him from loving her, and eventually getting her pregnant.
To keep anyone from knowing about Bathsheba and his baby, he called Uriah home from the battle, hoping he would lay with her, and assume it was his own child. But Uriah refused to leave the battle and go home to his wife. (2 Samuel 11:10-11)
"When David was told, "Uriah did not go home," he asked him, "Haven't you just come from a distance? Why didnt you go home?" Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open fields. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As surley as you live, I will not do such a thing!"
(2 Samuel 11:14-15)
"In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die."
Sure enough, Uriah died in the frontlines, and David married Bathsheba.
When the LORD sends Nathan, a prophet, to David, he tells him a story that resembles David's sinful life. David feels so bad that he admits to all the wrongs he had done and writes Psalm 51. The LORD punishes David by killing his first son, but soon Bathsheba give birth to Solomon, who the LORD loves and blesses.
And so the story continues.....
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