Adultery In Biblical Times

Normally in society today adultery, even though it is a crime in most states it is not one that people who commit it usually spend time in jail for, if it were our jails would be more overcrowded than they are now. In Biblical times it was crime that usually ended in punishment. For example the story of David and Bathsheba, even though Bathsheba was married she had sex with David and had gotten pregnant, David in turn had her husband put into a position during fighting that would have him killed, and after a while David and Bathsheba were married and they had a son and named him Solomon. In today’s society “adultery is an all-to-common behavior” (Jones, 2006, p. 103), as “society is more tolerant of adultery today than it was in David’s lifetime”
36). This type of crime was illegal in Biblical times, it is today and it is referred to as human trafficking and it is a prevalent problem as people are taken or abducted and being sold for use as labor for little to no money in factories, or even used as prostitutes. Most of those that are taken or that become victims are young children and women. Human trafficking is similar to enslaving another person, and slavery was abolished hundreds of years ago. “U.S. Congress passed and President William Jefferson Clinton signed into law the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA)” (Stolz, B., 2007), the TVPA is in place to “protect victims, prevent trafficking, and prosecute traffickers” (Stolz, B.,
89). That is a powerful statement, but it is also a truthful one. The battle between Saul and David took place in the Bible and even though David was looked upon as a hero for killing Goliath, he could still be considered a war criminal as he went and killed cities full of people. Saul committed the heinous act of killing priests and their families. There are still wars going on in today’s society, the Middle East is constantly in conflict and the death toll is astronomical. According to the Congressional Research Service, as of December 2014 United States Military Deaths just in Operation Iraqi Freedom there were 4,412 (Leland, Nese F. DeBruyne & Anne, 2015, p.