Did King David rape Bath-sheba?

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I guess Uriah and Bath-sheba don't mean anything to god, since he doesn't chastise David further for forgetting who it was he really mistreated. No, not at all! God immediately "puts away" David's sin and spares his life. Uriah stays dead. Bath-sheba remains the wife of the man who raped her, and will now bear a child that god himself has promised to kill. It's like JUSTICE ALL AROUND!!!

Actually, God IS pissed about what King David did to them!

I don't know about that. God seems more upset at how this reflects on him rather than on the fact that David raped a woman and tried to cover it up by arranging a hit on her husband and then forcing her into marriage with her rapist. After all, god goes to such lengths to visit punishments on David (which mostly consist of having other people die) when he could have simply intervened before David ever glanced at Bath-sheba. The story implies that David should have been at the battlefront, not at home. God could have simply reminded him to go join his troops, where he could have taken out his sexual frustration on the virgin daughters of his enemies, like a good Israelite was commanded.

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No. I'm just saying that Bathsheba may have been a willing accomplice in the relationship, in which case she would share responsibility for the act of adultery.

In which case the story would have told us of god's anger with her and his punishment for her, since as an adulteress she would have been subject to death. But an interesting thing about the story is that David is not accused of adultery!!!

Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

David's crimes are that he struck down Uriah and took his wife. Not that he entered into an adulterous affair with Bath-sheba. Bath-sheba is NEVER mentioned as being at fault for anything that happens. And again, the loss of her child is specifically because David brought reproach against the name of god, not for any of her actions.