{"id":507,"date":"2007-05-18T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2007\/05\/wheres-your-bath--sheba.html"},"modified":"2007-05-18T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T07:07:00","slug":"wheres-your-bath-sheba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2007\/05\/wheres-your-bath-sheba.html","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Your Bath&#8211;  Sheba?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There once was a man named Uriah<br \/>Whose wife would not sit tight<br \/>On the roof her bath was visible<br \/>Especially in daylight<\/p>\n<p>It came to the king&#8217;s attention<br \/>Who found it quite a sight<br \/>So he summoned her to his palace<br \/>To have a special night<\/p>\n<p>This led to the inevitable<br \/>This Sheba was a delight<br \/>But the consequences became quite visible<br \/>So David flexed his royal might<\/p>\n<p>He sent her husband into battle<br \/>For he was a fierce Hittite<br \/>And told his boys &#8220;stand back&#8221;<br \/>So the dust he would soon bite<\/p>\n<p>He thought he&#8217;d solved the problem<br \/>But actually not quite,<br \/>For Nathan, his moral conscience<br \/>Nagged away about wrong and right<\/p>\n<p>Until the king repented<br \/>And pled to be washed white,<br \/>He wrote Ps. 51 as penance<br \/>Cause his life was such a fright.<\/p>\n<p>So learn this lesson about bathing,<br \/>And outdoor hot tubs too<br \/>Don&#8217;t let it all hang out<br \/>Or trouble will start to brew.<\/p>\n<p>In an age of indoor  plumbing,<br \/>There&#8217;s no excuse for you,<br \/>Because always Someone&#8217;s watching<br \/>To see if you&#8217;ll be true.<\/p>\n<p>BW3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There once was a man named UriahWhose wife would not sit tightOn the roof her bath was visibleEspecially in daylight It came to the king&#8217;s attentionWho found it quite a sightSo he summoned her to his palaceTo have a special night This led to the inevitableThis Sheba was a delightBut the consequences became quite visibleSo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where&#039;s Your Bath- Sheba? 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