He bathes in the sight of David, 2Sa 11:1-4; gives birth to Solomon, 2Sa 12:24; she intercedes for Solomon’s right to the throne, 1Ki 1:15-21; pray for Adonijah, 1Ki 2:19-25.
Bathsheba (Heb. Bath-sheba, “daughter of the oath” or “daughter of the seventh”). She is the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah, a Hittite soldier in King David’s army. Attracted by her beauty, he committed adultery with her during her husband’s absence, resulting in him becoming pregnant by her. Since King David failed in his effort to get Uriah to visit his home so that he would believe his son was his, David had his faithful soldier exposed to be killed during the siege of Rabbah. After the customary period of mourning, he married Bathsheba; the 1st son died and the 2nd was King Solomon (2Sa 11:1-12:24). She was once called Beth-shua, *daughter of Ammiel (1Ch 3:5). The name Amiel contains the components of Eliam in reverse order. When Adonijah was about to assume the royal throne (1Ki 1: 11-31), Bathsheba, advised by the prophet Nathan, induced the king to immediately crown his son Solomon. She later tried to get her son’s consent for Adonijah to marry Abishag, David’s maid. Her efforts failed, and because of the request, considered a claim to the throne, Adonijah lost his life (2:13-25). According to 1Ch 3:5, Bathsheba had 3 sons besides Solomon: Shimea, Shobab, and Nathan (cf 2Sa 5:14; 1Ch 14:4). Bathsheba is included in the genealogy of Christ given by Matthew: “She who was the wife of Uriah” (Mat 1:6).
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
daughter of opulence She is the daughter of Eliam, and the wife of Uriah, one of the Hittite mercenary soldiers in David’s army. The king fell in love with B. of her, when she bathed in her, seduced her and impregnated her. For this reason, he ordered Joab, the commander of the army, who was campaigning against Rabbah, to put Uriah in the front line of the battle, so that he would die, as it happened. David, after mourning, took B. as his wife, and she bore him a son, 2 S 11. The prophet Nathan, sent from God, reproached the king for his conduct, and was punished with the death of the son he bore him. B. David repented of his sin, Ps 51 (50). B. conceived and bore David another son, Solomon, 2 Sam 12, 1-25. When David was old, his son Adonijah, supported by Joab, commander of the army, and Abiathar the priest, rose up and proclaimed himself king. But B., at the request of the prophet Nathan, went to King David and he swore to him that the successor to the throne would be Solomon and David ordered that he be anointed as such 1 R 1, 5-40. In the struggles for the succession to the throne, B. acted as a counselor, 1 R 1, 11-53; 2, 13 25. After David died, Adonijah asked B. to go to Solomon so that he would grant him Abishag as a wife. This cost Adonijah his life, 1 Kings 2, 13-25.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
(Heb., bathsheva, daughter of Sheba). She was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, a soldier in David’s army. During Uriah’s absence from the wars, David committed adultery with her (2 Samuel 11). Then Uriah was treacherously killed on David’s orders (2Sa 11:6ff.). She became David’s wife and lived with him in the palace. They had four sons, including Solomon (2Sa 5:14; 1Ch 3:5), after the first child died (2Sa 12:14ff.). With the help of the prophet Nathan, she foiled Adonijah’s plot to usurp the kingdom and got David to choose Solomon as his successor. Her sons Nathan and Solomon were both descendants of Jesus Christ (Mat 1:6; Luk 3:31).
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
(Daughter of the oath). Wife of †¢Uriah, after David. Solomon’s mother. While Uriah was away fighting at the site of Rabbah, David fell in love with her and had illicit relations with her, becoming pregnant by her. She told David, who sent for Uriah and tried to make him sleep in her house, so that it would not be known that the child was not his. Failing in his attempt, David ordered the murder of Uriah and then took B. as his wife (2Sa 11:1-27).
Although the child thus conceived died, B. later had four sons with David: Solomon, Shimea, Shobab, and Nathan (1Ch 3:5). B. had an important role in the execution of what David had promised about the succession of the throne, and she occupied a special place as queen mother next to her son Solomon, who was chosen. In this role, she interceded with her son so that † ¢ Abisag was given as a wife to † ¢ Adonijah, which caused his death (1 Kings 1: 11-53; 1 Kings 2: 13-25).
B. was the granddaughter of †¢Ahithophel (2Sa 23:34). Some rabbis and other scholars think that this advisor to David participated in Absalom’s rebellion because of his resentment over the Uriah incident. = †¢Beth-shua.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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vet, = “daughter of an oath”. She was the daughter of Eliam, or Amiel, and the wife of Uriah the Hittite. David committed an execrable double sin, committing adultery with her, and seeking after her the death of Uriah so that what happened would not be discovered. After Uriah’s death, David took her as his wife, and she became the mother of Solomon and David’s other sons. When Adonijah tried to proclaim himself king, Bathsheba, prompted by Nathan, appealed to David to make him fulfill his promise that Solomon would be his successor. When Solomon was king, Adonijah begged Bathsheba to use her influence to get Abishag as his wife (2 Sam. 11:3; 12:24; 1 Kings 1:11-31; 2:13-19 ; Ps. 51, “title”). She is also called Betsúa (1 Chr. 3:5); the same Hebrew word is translated “daughter of Shua,” the wife of Judah (Gen. 38:12; 1 Chron. 2:3).
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Wife of the Hittite Uriah, chief of David’s army. David sinned with her and, failing to deceive Uriah, caused him to die in a warrior assault to keep her wife. (2 Sam. 11. 1-26). The prophet Nathan blamed him for such a crime and David repented with the feelings of Psalm 50, which he composed for this reason.
The son born of adultery died and David comforted the new wife with another son, who would be King Solomon. (See Woman 3.1)
Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006
Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy
Wife of Uriah, with whom King David committed adultery, after which David himself ordered that Uriah be exposed to danger in battle so that he would die; and indeed she died, whereupon David was able to take her for his wife. Solomon was the son of David and Bathsheba (cf. 2 Sam 11-12), who appears in the genealogy of Jesus as “Uriah’s wife” (Mt 1,6).
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FERNANDEZ RAMOS, Felipe (Dir.), Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth, Editorial Monte Carmelo, Burbos, 2001
Source: Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth
(-> genealogy). She is the fourth of the women in the genealogy of Jesus, according to Mt 1,6, but she does not appear with her name, like the previous three (Tamar*, Rahab and Ruth), but only as “the wife of Uriah”, from the that David fathered Solomon. According to 2 Sam 11-12 and 1 Kings 1-2, she has played an irregular and important role in the genealogical history of Israel, the same as the other three women. The text presents her as the daughter of Eliam (2 Sam 11,3) and she belongs in all probability to the pre-Israelite aristocracy of Jerusalem. She is married to Uriah, a significant soldier in David’s army, a Hittite, probably of Canaanite origin, prior to David’s conquest of Jerusalem. Uriah could be a mercenary, who has come from abroad to serve David; but it is more likely that she is part of the Canaanite aristocracy of Jerusalem, assimilated by David after the conquest of the city (cf. 2 Sam 5:6-9). Possibly Bathsheba is also not an Israelite; but the text does not care about that, but about the way in which she has known how to take advantage of her circumstances (her adultery, the murder of her husband) to ascend in the king’s court. In the stories of the first part of her life (2 Sam 11-12) she seems passive; We don’t know anything about what she thinks, we don’t even know if she has children from her previous marriage or if she hopes that the son she begets with David will become king. Her text presents her bathing on the terrace of her house, possibly to purify herself after menstrual impurity. This detail is significant, because it lets us know that the son she is expecting, after having slept with David, cannot have been fathered by Uriah, who is fighting far away, serving the king who sleeps with his wife. For the narrator of the story, she will continue to be the wife of Uriah, probably a foreigner (cf. 2 Sm 12,9.10.15; Mt 1,6). All this changes in the last part of his life (in 1 Kgs 1-2), when David is dying and Adonijah, another of his sons, born of another woman (cf. 2 Sm 3,4), wants to take power and is crowned king. At this moment, Bathsheba appears as gebíra *, powerful woman, mother of the one who is going to be monarch. It is she who, with Nathan, the prophet, plots and directs the palace coup, convincing David to proclaim Solomon as his successor on his throne. She also influences her son Solomon, so that he kills Adonías, her father’s brother, who still wants to occupy the throne. Thus she appears as an intriguing and powerful woman, who influences David (as David had influenced her at the beginning), dramatically directing the destinies of Israel, in the basic moments of the change of reign from David to Solomon, the new king, who appears as well as mestizo, son of David and the wife of a foreigner (a foreigner). The Gospel of Matthew has wanted to put in its light the figure and work of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
PIKAZA, Javier, Dictionary of the Bible. History and Word, Divine Word, Navarra 2007
Source: Dictionary of Bible History and Word
“David sent to inquire after that woman, and they said to him, ‘She is Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite'” (2 Samuel 11:3).
Read: 2 Samuel 11:2-5, 26, 27; 12:15-24; 1st Kings 1:11-40. Bathsheba’s name is linked to the terrible sin committed by David. It is so terrible that we are amazed that it could be committed by a man with whom God had been pleased. It represents three different transgressions. First of all, an act of ignominious adultery. Second, David got Uriah drunk, in an effort to hide his own guilt. Finally, he schemed and arranged for Uriah to be killed in an attack on a city. He gave express orders that he be left in the lurch.
God is no respecter of persons and these facts are reported in the Bible. God’s chosen David was guilty of shameful conduct. But we must also observe the behavior of Bathsheba. Of course, when we talk about this matter we always talk about what David did, but we have to think about what Bathsheba did as well.
David noticed Bathsheba when he saw her bathing, while he was walking on the roof of his house. We are to assume that she Bathsheba must have realized that she was bathing in a place where she could be…