• @[email protected]
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        66 months ago

        Similar to the “Uriah Method.” Send him to the front line of a battle, feign sadness upon his untimely (yet highly anticipated) death, then steal his wife.

        • @[email protected]
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          56 months ago

          Well. Except for the fact that David had already gotten Bathsheba pregnant by that point. He had Uriah called back from the front so that there could be some plausible claim that Uriah was the father, but Uriah refused to have sex with his wife while he was on leave because–IIRC–he wanted to stand in solidarity with his buddies on the front line that weren’t home with their wives. So David had him killed in order to try and cover up their adultery.

          For a guy that’s supposed to be one of the good guys, David was a real piece of work.

          • @maniii
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            16 months ago

            I think there is a lesson in there about adultery being very bad or something.

    • @TenderfootGungi
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      26 months ago

      I actually know of one guy from an extremely religious family that married his brother’s wife when his brother died. I always wondered if it was true love or duty.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      06 months ago

      That I am less upset about. Kids were a net profit in that time period. For a woman passed the point where she can just get married, with presumably her dowry being depleted, having a kid with the brother meant that she would have a hand in the whole not starving thing.

      I won’t judge people that poor for making hard decisions. Just be glad that no one reading this lives in a world like that.