1) This is one of the great stories how sin has a tendency to multiply and deepen. It shows how the cover-up is often more problematic than the crime.

2) I don't know if Batsheba (daughter of an oath, or of the south) could be somewhat complicit. My sense is that her bath was private within a wall. She did not think that eyes from above could spy her. Nonetheless, even if David enjoyed the view, his actions go far beyond leering.

3) I read David as always having mixed motves. Others read this as a sudden fall from grace.

4) At any rate, David is now enjoying the indolence of royalty.

5) He enjoys the prerogatives of power. He treats her like a  letter, sending and receiving,returned.

6) Now she returns the favor, and she sends a brief message:pregnant.

7) David cannot imagine that Uriah, a foreigner wth a Jewish name, would not see the light, and be with hs wife, even afte drinking. uriah maintains the purity of the battle, something David has long forgotten.

8)Unable to pin the pregnancy on Uriah, David has another do his dirty work.