TEXT: 2 Samuel 11:2-3; Gen.34:2

KEY VERSE: I made a covenant with mine eves: why then should I think upon a maid?"Job 31:1

David inquired-Instead of suppressing that desire which the sight of his eyes had kindled, he seeks rather
to feed it; and first enquires who she was; that if she were unmarried, he might make her either his wife or
his concubine.

In the first place how could any woman of delicacy expose herself where she could be so
fully and openly viewed? Did she not know that she was at least in view of the king 's terrace?

Was there
no design or plan in all this? From this passage we can see how Beersheba the wife of Uriah created an
atmosphere of seduction for King David to fall, she was washing herself outside, instead of inside her
bathroom where no one will see her nakedness.

Her husband was...