Before I get into the attributes of this spirit, I would like to run down the storyline to familiarize you and establish what Jesus gave me about this spirit. As I state in the article, The Spirit of Bathsheba in Bitter Seas, I always assumed the character of Bathsheba to be a good one in the Biblical narrative; until I meet this spirit and Jesus elaborates on it. 

2 Samuel 11 establishes that King David stopped fighting for the kingdom and “stays behind” as the nation goes to war.  David is a waring king before and wars again after this occurrence.  It appears he takes a break from his calling; became comfortable in his success.  Either way, he stays back and sins against God with a married woman, kills her husband, marries her and loses the child conceived out of wedlock to judgement. 

Another interesting point is that David has wives (8) and concubines (we don’t know how many) before he marries Bathsheba, wife number eight.  It seems as if David’s womanizing days come to an end after Nathan visits David with pronouncement of God’s judgement, to which he is seen going back to war in 2 Samuel 12:29.  The narrative brings questions to mind:  How could David have seen Bathsheba bathing in the open at this age in time, unless she wanted him too?  Perhaps it was all a mistake.  Who knows.  Either way, Bathsheba put herself in a position to be lusted over by the King of Israel. 

Another scene with Bathsheba as the main actor is when Adonijah approaches her to make a “deal.” You can read the narrative in 1 Kings 1 and 2, but Adonijah conspires with his stepbrother’s mother against her own son.  Yes, she agrees to a conspiracy against her own son Solomon.  Adonijah attempts to usurp the throne before and after Solomon is awarded it by God.  Here is the story: 

Adonijah approaches Bathsheba.  She has to ask him, “Do you come in peace,” because one could die for what had happened prior to their meeting.  They were enemies.  He answers “yes,” and she considers his proposal, which is to usurp the throne AGAIN!  How could Bathsheba agree to such a deal?  We don’t know the tools Adonijah used to sweeten the deal, but we do know the spirit behind her!

Bathsheba proposes Adonijah’s deal to Solomon, to which he is infuriated.  So much so that he had Adonijah killed that day.  If Bathsheba wasn’t his own mother he probably would have killed her too.

With those two scenes I establish the attributes of the Spirit of Bathsheba; she is a usurper and a destroyer of destiny.  First, The Spirit of Bathsheba is already a spirit before Bathsheba as we know her, using King David to lust over woman other than the seven wives and concubines prior to Bathsheba.  The spirit is already at work causing David to put down his defenses, become lackadaisical, and comfortable in his success, trying to destroy his destiny as King of Israel and type of Christ, a savior of the nation.  Second, The Spirit of Bathsheba, now indwelt in the Biblical character of which we get her name, conspires against the Destiny of God by agreeing to overthrow the legally called one to the throne, her own son Solomon.