(June 20, 2014 at 9:35 am)alpha male Wrote: I don't see how you get a strong case from the fact that we're not told how she responded.Not just from that. The story doesn't indicate that she had the opportunity to confess or lie to her husband, which might have helped determine how complicit she was. Neither she nor David is accused of adultery, and she is not punished for being an adulteress.
The story tells us that she observed the mourning period for her husband, but that is neither here nor there (she could have done so to keep up appearances). It could be pointed out that David is not accused of rape, but the writers of the old testament don't seem to consider rape to be a crime. David sinned by killing a man and taking his wife, and it seems that this is what finally triggers god's wrath and causes him to send Nathan to condemn David.
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