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-According to the [[Hebrew Bible]], '''Bathsheba''' was the [[wife]] of [[Uriah the Hittite]] and later of [[David (biblical king)|David]], king of the [[United Kingdom of Israel and Judah]]. She was the mother of [[Solomon]], who succeeded David as king.+The third [[son]] of [[David]], king of [[Israel]].
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-The story of David's seduction of Bathsheba is omitted in [[Chronicles]]. The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his house, saw [[Bathsheba]], who was then the wife of [[Uriah]], taking a [[bath]]. He immediately desired her and later made her pregnant.+
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-In an effort to conceal his sin, David summoned Uriah from the army (with whom he was on campaign) in the hope that Uriah would re[[consummate]] his marriage and think the child his. Uriah was unwilling to violate the ancient kingdom rule applying to warriors in active service. Rather than go home to his own bed, he preferred to remain with the palace troops. +
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-After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to fertilize Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, [[Joab]], that Uriah should be abandoned during a heated battle and left to the hands of the enemy. Ironically, David had Uriah himself carry the message that ordered his death. After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.+
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-According to the account in Samuel, David's action was displeasing to the Lord, who accordingly sent [[Nathan (Prophet)|Nathan the prophet]] to reprove the king. +
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-After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor (II Samuel 12:1-6), and exciting the king's anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David's action with regard to Bathsheba. +
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-The king at once confessed his sin and expressed sincere repentance. Bathsheba's child by David was smitten with a severe illness and died at a few days after birth, which the king accepted as his punishment. +
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-Nathan also noted that David's house would be cursed with turmoil because of this murder. This came to pass years later when one of David's much-loved sons, [[Absalom]], led an insurrection that plunged the kingdom into [[civil war]]. Moreover, to manifest his claim to be the new king, Absalom had sexual intercourse in public with ten of his father's concubines, which could be considered a direct, tenfold divine retribution for David's taking the woman of another man. +
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-In David's old age, Bathsheba secured the succession to the throne of her son Solomon, instead of David's eldest surviving son [[Adonijah]].+
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