According to the Book of 2 Samuel 11-12

Part 1

• The life of David was now beginning to become very difficult and involved a woman by the name Bathsheba a daughter to Eliam and the wife of his general soldier Uriah.
• One of the days, David takes a walk on the roof of his palace where he spots a beautiful woman taking a bath.
• David is aroused and sends one of his helpers out to go fetch information about her and the report is brought back complete.
• David summons the general, Uriah, about how the war is and also sends him a gift immediately after requesting him to go back home and wash his feet.
• Uriah disobeys David and sleeps on his door just like the other soldiers but the information reaches David that Uriah never went home like he had told him.

 Part 2

• It is during the time of war, springtime, and David sent away Uriah to go and get killed in the war. David sent a letter to Joab that he should put Urial where the war was more concentrated with an aim of ending his life.
• David now takes advantage of the situation and sends his soldiers to pick up Bathsheba.
• David and Bathsheba both sleep together and Bathsheba gets pregnant in the process.
• God sends a prophet by the name Nathan to tell David a short story.
• Nathan narrates a story about one poor man who had a lamb and which he cared for and treated it very carefully like it was his daughter.
• On a certain day, a traveler was on his way to a rich man and the rich man had his own sheep but instead of taking one of his, he took the one that belonged to the poor man and gave it to the guest as a meal.
• David hurriedly says that the rich man should have been killed immediately for committing such a ruthless act.
• Nathan tells David that the rich man is him, David, who took another person’s property and killed him to benefit his own wishes.
• Nathan gives David the message as God had requested him together with the punishment he should expect.
• David was punished by God that his own neighbor who happens to be his family will sleep with his wives and that his house with remain at war.
• Nathan assures David of his continued relationship with God but he would not die of it though pay the penalty for killing Uriah.
• God gives David and Bathsheba a child who is so unwell.
• David pleads with God to let his son live and not die and he even fasts and prays so hard for forgiveness.
• At some point, the elders see the fasting and praying as too much as request David to stop torturing himself but David does not listen to them.
• After some time the child dies and David notes about it through the servants and finally, they confess it to David.

 Part 3

• David is presented as a selfish leader who does not care about his fellow people and especially the general who was serving under him.
• David stood out to be a leader who cannot be envied but God somehow makes him pay dearly for the death of his son.