{"product_id":"david-bathsheba-a-love-stone-story","title":"David \u0026 Bathsheba","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— 2 Samuel 11:2\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, \u003cem\u003e“She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David: \u003cem\u003e“I am pregnant.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid would call for Uriah to come home from battle, hoping to pass the child off as his. But when Uriah’s loyalty to his post remained unshakeable, David called for his destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis was not a clean love story. It began in sin. A king who took what was not his. A woman who had no choice. A husband sent to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bible shows us that even the greatest of men can fall. The story of David and Bathsheba reveals how a single impulse can lead to immense consequences. Grounded in his authority, David saw her from his palace and allowed desire to cloud his judgment. A reminder to all of us that we must safeguard our hearts and align our desires with the will of God — and that no position, no power, no reputation protects us from ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd yet…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom that broken beginning, God did something no one could have predicted. He redeemed it. The child born of that union — Solomon — would become the wisest king Israel ever knew. And through this line, centuries later, would come Jesus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree stones. Three lives woven together by grace that defies explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout These Stones\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHand-selected from the shores of Plymouth, Massachusetts — shaped by tide and time, carried here by the Creator’s hand. Two stones as different as the people they represent, and as impossible to look away from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDavid — deep charcoal with silver fire\u003c\/strong\u003e — likely \u003cem\u003emica schist\u003c\/em\u003e, a metamorphic rock dense with muscovite or biotite mica. In direct light it doesn’t just shimmer — it blazes. Powerful, complex, and impossible to ignore. A king’s stone, for better and for worse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBathsheba — warm cream speckled with amber and gold\u003c\/strong\u003e — likely \u003cem\u003egranite\u003c\/em\u003e, New England’s bedrock, with feldspar giving the creamy base, quartz adding glassy flecks, and iron oxide blooming in warm amber patches across the surface. Luminous. Arresting. The kind of thing that stops a man mid-thought.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSolomon — small, creamy, and quietly whole\u003c\/strong\u003e — the child neither of them planned, and the one through whom everything was redeemed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot polished. Not treated. What you see is exactly what the shore gave up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeep them together.\u003c\/strong\u003e Let them remind you that redemption doesn’t require a clean beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHand-collected from America’s Hometown, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Never tumbled. Never treated. Each set is one of a kind.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New England Nova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874227908653,"sku":"DAV-BATH-001","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/4276\/9453\/files\/d1_63f2866b-e551-4f78-a338-27e37a0193e0.jpg?v=1780268634","url":"https:\/\/newenglandnova.shop\/products\/david-bathsheba-a-love-stone-story","provider":"New England Nova","version":"1.0","type":"link"}