Why Is the King Subject to Any Rules?

He arranges for that general to be put at the thick of the battle and killed. And then he takes bathsheba so adand the lord is not pleased by that, let's put it that way. The rational emerges in these stories is there are social strictures that are such that even if the ruler of the land transgresses against them, there will be hell to pay. i would say this is actually an indication of god being fair, rather than being unfair....