Receive notification whenever items are posted to this site: You can change your delivery preferences in your subscription dashboard. As explained in "What does uncover the nakedness mean?" He had relations with Bilhah the mother of his half brothers she is a mere servant and I am the firstborn son. That was the sort of man Reuben was. [2] 1 Kings 1:4 notes that David did not engage in . Lot's daughters conspire to sleep with him - Bible Blender Genesis 38:11-30. Because we are free, we rely on advertising to cover our costs. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother. Abishag ( Hebrew: Avishag) was a beautiful young woman of Shunem chosen to be a helper and servant to King David in his old age. For he thought, "He may die too, just like his brothers.". There is a law, repeated several times in the Bible, forbidding sons from having sex with their father's wife/ wives (Lev. Amos 2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: Leviticus 20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. That means men, women, and children saw the prophet of God in the nude. Genesis 19:30-38 NIV - Lot and His Daughters - Bible Gateway He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. The Counsel of Ahithophel and Hushai 21 Ahithophel replied, "Sleep with your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. Some argue that Reuben did in fact lay with Bilhah and was deserving of his punishment, others that he was free from sin and spared at the last moment from being intimate with Bilhah. Someone Has His Father's Wife - Plain Bible Teaching In the Old Testament God said He would expose Israel's sins to their shame, and He draws the same parallel: "Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen" (Isaiah 47:3).