Adonijah crowns himself as king in his father’s old age but is soon ousted while Solomon succeeds David as King. David’s third son Absalom rebels against him and is killed. The punishment from God unfolds with division in David’s own house as his first son, Amnon, rapes his half-sister Tamar and is murdered by Absalom in revenge. The first child of David and Bathsheba dies and David is forgiven, yet he is already a victim of his choices. However, the consequences of his actions as Nathan the prophet predicted was that the sword would never depart from his house. When Uriah refuses to go, David conspires and murders him by placing him at the hottest front of the battle. In an attempt to cover his tracks, David recalls Uriah from the battleground to go home and rest with his wife, who had become pregnant with David’s child. He then proceeds to have an affair with her.
While his men were at war, David who stayed behind lurking around his balcony spies on this woman and orders to have her brought to him. When he ascended the throne of Israel, he took wives namely Ahinoam, Abigail, Maacah, Haggith, Eglah and Abital, having several children by them.Īmidst these wives and many more, David still found himself at the mercy of beauty when he saw Bathsheba, wife of his army officer, Uriah, bathing. In the case of King David, his first marriage was to Saul’s daughter Michal, given to him as his reward for delivering 200 Philistine foreskins. The downfall of King David and Samsonĭavid, King of Israel and Samson, the last Israelite judge are two powerful, yet controversial characters in the Bible whose lives went into somewhat of a downward spiral for a common reason beautiful women. In the first two verses he uses it in relation to the well-known Biblical stories of David and Sampson. And the main similarity between the two narratives as presented is that both of these characters basically fell victim to the beauty of a woman.
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