The woman whose beauty caught King David’s eye as she bathed on a rooftop, leading to one of the Bible’s most famous stories of sin and consequence. David committed adultery with Bathsheba and arranged the death of her husband Uriah. Their first child died as judgment, but their second son Solomon became David’s successor and one of history’s wisest kings. Bathsheba became a powerful queen mother who secured Solomon’s throne, and she appears in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus.
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon.2 Samuel 12:24 · Berean Standard Bible
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home. And…
At the height of his power, David falls. The chapter reads like a slow-motion catastrophe — each choice leading deeper into darkness.
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon.
Nathan tells a story about a stolen lamb. David is furious — until the prophet turns the mirror. Four words that shatter a king's denial.
Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it? Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon. Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’ Then,…
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and Jesse the father of David the king. David was the father of Solomon by Uriah’s wife,
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