i have always believe that david and bathsheba be a film originally intend for tyrone power at 20th century fox and although gregory peck do give a good account of himself a king david and the monarch with a wander eye . a whole lot of biblical subject get cover in this film and adultery and redemption and sin and punishment and generally what god expect from his follower . when youre a king and even king in a biblically prophesied kingdom you certainly do have a lot perogatives not open to the rest of u . king david have many wife and include one really vicious one in jayne meadow who be the daughter of saul and david predecessor . but his eye catch sight of bathsheba out in her garden one evening . turn out she a unhappily marry to uriah the hittite a david be to quite a few woman . uriah be one of david army captain . david sends for bathsheba and him be the king and she come a runnin because she have her eye on him too . what happen and an affair and a pregnancy and and a carefully arrange death for uriah in a battle . but an all seeing and know deity have catch all of this and be not only punish david and bathsheba and but the entire kingdom of israel be be punish with drought and disease and and pestilence . the sexist law of the day call for bathsheba to have a stoning death . david show weakness in his previous action and but here he step up to the plate and ask that the whole thing be put on him . he even lay hand on the ark of the covenant which be an instant death a see in the film . my interpretation of it be that god admire gut even if youre wrong and he let up on david and forgive them both . bathsheba become the mother of solomon and she and david be the ancestor of several successor in the divided kingdom of israel and judah until theyre both conquer . susan hayward be a fetching bathsheba caught in a loveless marriage with uriah play by kieron moore . the only thing that get moore arouse be a good battle . i like kieron moore performance a a brave and rather stupid horse rear . no one can lay the law down like raymond massey . his nathan the prophet be in keep with the john brown character he play in two film and same intensity . so when his own law call for death and why do god spare bathsheba and keep david on the throne . maybe it be the fact he just do not want to train a third guy for the job . he would replace saul with david already . but i think the christian interpretation might be that this be a hint of the new testament forthcoming and that one might sin and receive mercy if one ask for it penitently . i will leave it to the biblical scholar to submit interpretation . watch the film and you might come up with an entirely new theory .