David is revered for lots of things, but when he saw her bathing from the roof it was the situation of a man seeing another man's wife naked. He went about getting her in the way an ape would. He was powerful enough to do such things to get the beauty he desired, and he displeased the Lord.I.20
Like an unborn infant swimming to be born, like a woman counting breath in the spasms of labour, I yearn for you. Like a fish pulled to the minnow, the angler to the point of line and water, I am fixed in a strict demand, O king of absolute unity. What must I do to sweeten this expectancy, to rescue hope from the scorn of my enemy? The child is born into your world, the fish is fed and the fisherman too. Bathsheba lies with David, apes come down from the Tower of Babel, but in my heart an ape sees the beauty bathing. From every side of Hell is my greed affirmed. O shield of Abraham, affirm my hopefulness.
There are apes and there are gods, and people are somewhere in between – apes with angel glands? It may have been that if a young David had simply delivered the food to his soldier brothers, then returned to his sheep with no blood on his hands that fateful day, maybe he wouldn’t have had to go roaming the whole desert trying to avoid Saul. Maybe things could have been better for him.wiki wrote: "The Midrash portrays the influence of Satan bringing about the sinful relation of David and Bathsheba as follows: Bathsheba was on the roof of her house, perhaps behind a screen of wickerwork. Satan is depicted as coming in the disguise of a bird. David, shoots at it, strikes the screen, splitting it; thus Bathsheba is revealed in her beauty to David (Sanhedrin 107a). Bathsheba may have been providentially destined from the Creation to become in due time the legitimate wife of David, but this relation was prematurely precipitated by David's impetuous act."
Supposedly, God didn’t even want Israel to have kings. It was something the people wanted and made happen. Maybe doing things that landed him in the throne were other sins of David’s, and sins of those who helped put him there. I don’t know if we can learn from others’ mistakes. I generally hold that I learn best when I screw up myself, but that isn’t necessarily true either. I think I learn best when I think about things. So it may be possible to learn from others’ mistakes. Maybe the Bible is full of heroes who screwed up in ways to educate us.
We seem to be going backward in time in this sprayer. First the child is born, then Bathsheba lies with David, then the ape sees the bathing beauty. It may be that God has a plan for us, and that if we allow ourselves to be guided and to live in a way that avoids sin, then those plans will actualize. But the world also acts on us, and it’s difficult to know which way we’re supposed to go. If David had not flung a stone at Goliath, maybe his brothers would have been killed. What suffering would have been worse for David, the slaying of his brothers, the death of his child? And who suffered for the death of Uriah? Would David have become that military pugilist? Maybe he would have done better to be a diplomat.
And since he was a war-guy, and since he did cleverly evade Saul all over the desert, and since he did become king, did he still have to drool from his rooftop? Maybe David could have talked to Uriah. Uriah didn’t want to leave his fellow servicemen and go home for a romp with his wife. What does this tell us about Uriah? Maybe that Uriah was faithful to the mores of combat, or maybe that he wasn’t in love with Bathsheba. Of course, I don’t know. Once Bathsheba was pregnant, David talked to Uriah, he said, “Please, go home and bang your wife.” and Uriah said, “Why me? Naw, man, I’m cool on the lines with the guys.” He said this to his king.
I don't know if they were meant to be together, and no one will ever know if they would have gotten together some other painless way. But the potential for lots of things was there.
We always think we have some kind of control, and when we exercise that control, we’re liable mess it all up. Then we have to go through the pain of trying to get things back on track. But how are we supposed to know when we're doing what we should and when we're taking control and making decisions we shouldn't? Looking back, David might have said, "Dang it, you know, if only I'd stayed with Dad’s sheep, I would have met Bathsheba and married her as a young man and lived happily ever after." But at the time when he decided to go help his brothers and ended up killing Goliath, it was because it seemed like helping his brothers was the best thing he could have done. But, you know, maybe God had some other plan in the works for smoking Goliath. Samuel had been around to anoint David by then, so little Davey knew that God was with him, and maybe that put some boldness in his heart. If going after Goliath was his first mistake, how was he supposed to know? This is the kind of problem I tend to run into with a personified God.
He says "In my heart an ape sees the beauty bathing," and he says this after referring to David lying with Bathsheba. Maybe this shows us how he looks back on the experience, now able to see that ape his heart, lusting after all that smooth skin and graceful movement that is femininity. An ape that looked on in want at the way she moved her hands over her skin, put her elbow over the edge of the tub and relaxed so her head rolled back a little, her neck showing in that bluish-yellow moonlight. Look, now look at the way she raises herself from the concealment of the tub. There’s a towel on the floor, and she bends to reach for it. Are you apes all drooling yet?
In Leonard’s BoM he seems to be turning back time. The Lord really does care for music; David was singing all the time in the Psalms. That pesky evil spirit that God put into Saul even liked music. Go back, go back. Be that boy with the harp, go back. Be the one who had never killed, never cheated, never stole.
If David had had the story of David to read, if he could turn back time, would he have stayed in the fields with his sheep and harp? Would he have been content to play delivery-boy to his brothers in battle? Would Goliath suddenly have suffered a heart-attack at the hand of God? Maybe the Lord does care for music, but man cares for power. And when he uses his power, he doesn’t have the power to undo his mistakes.
Wasn’t there earlier mention of “The one who found David in Hell?” Maybe turning back time is a way out of Hell.
Well, man, stick another star on my dispreachment chart. 
. I love what I'm reading from you, Manna, and from Christine, adding to what Doron and Mat write. 
, which I fully understand when it comes to analyzing Leonard's work 
], I'll click Submit before I make it to Delete. Please forgive any redundancies in what I'm saying with what's already been said or covered by others. This is my own, humble [and, believe me, I do mean humble] contribution to this discussion, with a few thoughts. Please forgive my own repetitiveness and redundancies.
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