Bathsheba
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Named at 2 Samuel 11:3: “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?” At 11:2–5 David, walking on the roof of the king’s house, sees a woman bathing, and the woman is very beautiful to look at; he sends and inquires after the woman, sends messengers and takes her, and lies with her; the woman conceives, and she sends and tells David, and says, “I am with child.” At 11:26–27, when Uriah’s wife hears that Uriah her husband is dead, she mourns for her husband; when the mourning is past, David sends and takes her home to his house, and she becomes his wife and bears him a son. 2 Samuel 12:15 says that the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and 12:24 says, “David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon.” 1 Kings 1:11–14 says that Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life and your son Solomon’s life”; 1:15–17 that Bathsheba went in to the king in his room and said to him, “My lord, you swore by the LORD your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’”; and 2:13–19 that Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon and said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife”, and that when Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right hand.
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- 1KI 1:11–14, engwebp
11Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?
12Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life and your son Solomon’s life.
13Go in to King David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why then does Adonijah reign?’
14Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”
- 1KI 1:15–21, engwebp
15Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.
16Bathsheba bowed and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”
17She said to him, “My lord, you swore by the LORD your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’
18Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.
19He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant.
20You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
21Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”
- 1KI 1:22–27, engwebp
22Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
23They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
24Nathan said, “My lord, King, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?
25For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
26But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.
27Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”
- 1KI 1:28–31, engwebp
28Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.
29The king vowed and said, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
30most certainly as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.”
31Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord King David live forever!”
- 1KI 2:13–18, engwebp
13Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably.
14He said moreover, I have something to tell you.” She said, “Say on.”
15He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However, the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from the LORD.
16Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.” She said to him, “Say on.”
17He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
18Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”
- 1KI 2:19–25, engwebp
19Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
20Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother, for I will not deny you.”
21She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
22King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
23Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
24Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
25King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
- 2SA 11:2–5, engwebp
2At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
3David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
4David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
5The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”
- 2SA 11:26–27, engwebp
26When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
- 2SA 12:7–12, engwebp
7Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
8I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
9Why have you despised the LORD’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
11“This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
12For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’”
- 2SA 12:13–15, engwebp
13David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin. You will not die.
14However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the LORD’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”
15Then Nathan departed to his house. The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he was very sick.
- 2SA 12:24–25, engwebp
24David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The LORD loved him;
25and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for the LORD’s sake.
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Unresolved interpretation: The sons born to David in Jerusalem: 2 Samuel 5:13–16, 1 Chronicles 3:5–9 and 14:3–7
- 2 Samuel 5:13–16 says, “David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David. These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.”
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- 2SA 5:13–16, engwebp
13David took more concubines and wives for himself out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
14These are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
15Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,
16Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
- 2SA 5:13–16, engwebp
- 1 Chronicles 3:5–9 says, “and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.”
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- 1CH 3:5–9, engwebp
5and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
6and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
7Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
8Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
9All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
- 1CH 3:5–9, engwebp
- 1 Chronicles 14:3–7 says, “David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters. These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.”
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- 1CH 14:3–7, engwebp
3David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
4These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,
5Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,
6Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
7Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
- 1CH 14:3–7, engwebp
2 Samuel 5:14–16 names those born to David in Jerusalem Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, and gives no number. 1 Chronicles 3:5–8 names Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, “four, by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel”, and then Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, “nine”. 1 Chronicles 14:4–7 names Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet, and gives no number. The Korean Revised Version gives the same names in the same places, and writes Japhia 야비야 at 3:7 and 야비아 at 2 Samuel 5:15 and 1 Chronicles 14:6. This collection holds the sons of 2 Samuel 5:14–16 as entries, records the names of 1 Chronicles 3:5–9 and 14:3–7 in their lists as each verse spells them, and links only a son whose name, in at least one edition, is the same in the same father’s list; it records Bathshua and Ammiel of 3:5 as names of the list, linked to no entry. The text does not say whether sons of other names are the same men, and this collection does not decide it.
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Eliam (father of Bathsheba) — Father of — Bathsheba
Evidence: 2 Samuel 11:2–5
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Uriah (the Hittite) — Spouse of — Bathsheba
Evidence: 2 Samuel 11:2–5, 2 Samuel 11:26–27, 2 Samuel 12:7–12, 2 Samuel 12:13–15
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David — Spouse of — Bathsheba
Evidence: 2 Samuel 11:26–27, 2 Samuel 12:24–25
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Bathsheba — Mother of — Solomon
Evidence: 1 Kings 1:11–14, 1 Kings 1:15–21, 1 Kings 1:28–31, 1 Kings 2:13–18, 1 Kings 2:19–25, 2 Samuel 12:24–25
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Took part in (9) — David lies with Bathsheba, Uriah the Hittite’s wife, and the woman conceives, David takes Uriah’s wife home, and she becomes his wife and bears him a son, Bathsheba bears Solomon; the LORD loves him, and he is named Jedidiah, Nathan tells Bathsheba the mother of Solomon to go in to King David, Bathsheba goes in to the king in his room and tells him that he swore by the LORD, Nathan the prophet comes in and asks whether the king has said that Adonijah shall reign after him, King David vows to Bathsheba as the LORD lives, Adonijah asks Bathsheba to speak to Solomon the king for Abishag the Shunammite as his wife, King Solomon swears that Adonijah shall be put to death today, and Benaiah falls on him
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David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The LORD loved him;
Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?
Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.
Bathsheba bowed and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”
Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.
Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord King David live forever!”
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably.
Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”
Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Bathsheba (person-bathsheba) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/bathsheba Current wording: Named at 2 Samuel 11:3: “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?” At 11:2–5 David, walking on the roof of the king’s house, sees a woman bathing, and the woman is very beautiful to look at; he sends and inquires after the woman, sends messengers and takes her, and lies with her; the woman conceives, and she sends and tells David, and says, “I am with child.” At 11:26–27, when Uriah’s wife hears that Uriah her husband is dead, she mourns for her husband; when the mourning is past, David sends and takes her home to his house, and she becomes his wife and bears him a son. 2 Samuel 12:15 says that the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and 12:24 says, “David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon.” 1 Kings 1:11–14 says that Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life and your son Solomon’s life”; 1:15–17 that Bathsheba went in to the king in his room and said to him, “My lord, you swore by the LORD your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’”; and 2:13–19 that Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon and said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife”, and that when Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right hand. Cited evidence: 1KI 1:11–14, engwebp / 1KI 1:15–21, engwebp / 1KI 1:22–27, engwebp / 1KI 1:28–31, engwebp / 1KI 2:13–18, engwebp / 1KI 2:19–25, engwebp / 2SA 11:2–5, engwebp / 2SA 11:26–27, engwebp (and 3 more of 11) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.