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• Bathsheba

  Bathsheba is a woman in the Old Testament books of 2 Samuel and 1 Kings. She was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, later became the wife of David, and was the mother of Solomon.

• Eliam

  Eliam is a name that appears twice in 2 Samuel: once as the father of Bathsheba, and once as the son of Ahithophel and one of David's mighty men. The text does not state directly whether the two are the same person.

• Uriah

  Uriah was a Hittite warrior who fought in King David's army and was the husband of Bathsheba. After committing adultery with Bathsheba, David arranged for him to be killed in battle (2 Samuel 11).

• Nathan (Prophet)

  Nathan was a prophet of Israel during the reigns of King David and King Solomon. He delivered the promise that David's dynasty would endure forever, used a parable to confront David with his sin after the Bathsheba affair, and played a part in Solomon's accession to the throne.

• Nathan's Parable

  Nathan's parable is the story of a poor man's ewe lamb, told by the prophet Nathan to convict David of his sin after David lay with Bathsheba and caused the death of her husband Uriah (2 Samuel 12:1-4).

• Jedidiah

  Jedidiah, meaning "beloved of the LORD," is the name the LORD gave through the prophet Nathan to Solomon, the son of David and Bathsheba. It appears only in 2 Samuel 12:25.

• 2 Samuel 12

  In this chapter the prophet Nathan exposes David's sin through a parable, and David confesses. The first child Bathsheba bore to David dies, Solomon is born, and David captures Rabbah, the royal city of the Ammonites.

• 2 Samuel 11

  Second Samuel 11 recounts how David, remaining in Jerusalem during the war with Ammon, lay with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah. When his attempt to conceal her pregnancy failed, he had Joab arrange Uriah's death in battle and then took Bathsheba as his wife.

• 1 Kings 1

  1 Kings 1 recounts how, as the aged David's successor remains undecided and Adonijah attempts to make himself king, David, at the urging of Nathan and Bathsheba, has Solomon made king.

• Psalm 51

  Psalm 51 is a penitential psalm that its superscription attributes to David, written after the prophet Nathan rebuked him over the matter of Bathsheba. The psalmist confesses his sin and asks God to create a clean heart in him and restore the joy of salvation.

• Solomon

  Solomon was the third king of the united kingdom of ancient Israel and the son of David. He is known as a wise king and as the builder of the Temple in Jerusalem.

• Psalm 51:5

  David's confession, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." The verse is cited as a leading Old Testament basis for the doctrine of original sin, and Christian traditions differ in how they understand the nature of the sin it describes.

• 2 Samuel 12:13

  In this verse David, rebuked by Nathan, confesses, "I have sinned against the LORD," and Nathan declares that his sin has been put away. Because it presents a brief confession, an immediate pardon, and consequences of sin that remain even after forgiveness, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of repentance.

• Psalm 51:10

  David's prayer, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Spoken after his confession of sin, it asks God to create the heart anew. It is a classic verse of penitential prayer and is widely used in worship songs and prayer.

• Psalm 51:16–17

  A passage from Psalm 51, traditionally known as David's psalm of repentance, in which the psalmist confesses that the sacrifice God desires is not an animal offering but "a broken and a contrite heart." It is frequently cited in discussions of worship and repentance that place the heart before outward form.

• Psalm 51:11–12

  A passage in which David, repenting of his sin, asks God not to withdraw His presence and His Holy Spirit and to restore to him the joy of salvation. It is frequently cited as a model of penitential prayer and also figures in discussions of whether the Holy Spirit can depart from a believer.

• 2 Samuel 13

  2 Samuel 13 recounts how Amnon, David's firstborn son, violates his half-sister Tamar, and how Tamar's brother Absalom kills Amnon two years later and flees to Geshur.

• Pharaoh's Daughter

  Pharaoh's daughter is the Egyptian princess in Exodus 2 who drew the infant Moses out from among the reeds of the Nile and raised him as her own son. Scripture does not give her name.

• 2 Samuel 10

  2 Samuel 10 recounts how the envoys David sent to comfort the Ammonite king Hanun were humiliated, an insult that led Joab, Abishai, and David to defeat a coalition of Ammonite and Aramean forces.