Uh...no. It's oh so obvious you've not read the story.
Actually, I have (and had my bible open in front of me), but thanks for insulting me.
If that's not what it means at all, then you could have been kind enough to explain what it did mean. I actually did want to understand it. If I made an assumption that wasn't true or accurate, you could have told me why. From the context of that story, it certainly looks like the character of God in the story is saying exactly what the texts SAYS he says. Even if it was a parable, or a warning that never came to pass... it seems like he still says it.
How about you explain it?
Sorry for insulting you. Sometimes I get the same spirit in me that others answer me by...not that you had.
One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then* she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant."
1. If David could see her from his roof...she was well aware of what she was doing...bathing. He was the king...
2. She came to him willingly. See No. 1.
3. She had just finished her period and so this makes it clear it was David's baby.
4. She tells David she is prego. The law prescribed death penalty for both of them (Lev. 20:10, Dt 22:22) By telling him, she leaves the next step up to him. (from a commentary)
Apology accepted. I can understand feeling defensive if you think you ought to be on the defense, but when I post, I TRY not to attack others. If I came across as attacking you somehow, then I apologize too. It's just that when I post about the Bible, I'm trying to understand the context of something, and if I make wrong or faulty assumptions, I'd sooner just be told how it is that I'm wrong, so I can correct myself if I need to.

OK, back to the story. So, David sees her bathing, and because she's beautiful and he wants her, she somehow wants him too? Just because he saw her bathing? That part of the story says that he sent messengers to go get her, so it was like she was summoned. And then he slept with her. Just like that? I must not understand why she would have willingly done so. David had power. She maybe knew that. She slept with him once, got pregnant, went home, and later told him she was pregnant. OK. Well, fair enough... different time, different culture, I suppose. It's the biblical equivalent of a 'booty call', I guess - sorry to be crass.

Skip forward to verses 11 and 12 that I quoted in my first post, though.
11 Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’”
How is this explained? This was the part I had the major issue with. That God said he'd take women, give them to a neighbor, and the neighbor will 'have relations' with them. Is this objectionable to you, AD, that God would even say something like this? How is it that women can be given to anyone? How could they go willingly, and willingly 'lie with' those men? They still seem to be treated like property here, or sex objects. Can you explain to me how this isn't the case?