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Batsheva eggy challah hanukkah6/24/2023 ![]() And in the list of David's thirty in 1 Chronicles 11:36 we have Ahijah the Pelonite. However, in 1 Chronicles the names are very different: Bathsheba is called Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel in 1 Chronicles 3:5. The assumption is then that these two Eliams are the same person. 11:3, and 2 Sam 23:34 mentions an Eliam, the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's " thirty". The argument is that she is called the daughter of Eliam in 2 Sam. Several scholars see Bathsheba as the granddaughter of Ahitophel, as do passages in the Talmud. William Blake's painting Bathsheba at the Bath, Tate Britain 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 in secret ( 2 Samuel 16:20–23). David's punishment came to pass years later when one of David's much-loved sons, Absalom, led an insurrection that plunged the kingdom into civil war. In David's old age, Bathsheba, based on David's promise, secured the succession to the throne by Solomon, instead of David's elder surviving sons by his other wives, such as Chileab ( 2 Samuel 3:1–6), Adonijah ( 1 Kings 1:11–31) and others ( 2 Samuel 3:1–6). ![]() King David accepted this as his punishment, went to the house of Yahweh and worshipped him (2 Samuel 12:20–23).īathsheba later gave birth to David's son Solomon. David pleaded with God to spare his child, fasting and spending the nights lying in sackcloth on the ground (2 Samuel 12:16–17), but after seven days the child died (2 Samuel 12:18). Shortly after Bathsheba's first (unnamed) child by David was born, Yahweh struck it with a severe illness (2 Samuel 12:15). King David at once confessed his sin and expressed sincere repentance. Nathan noted that Yahweh would punish David's house for Uriah's murder and taking his wife, and would let someone close (רֵעַ rea) to David take away / seize (לָקַח laqach) all his wives and have him lie with / rape (שָׁכַב šākab) them in broad daylight for everyone to see (2 Samuel 12:9–12). After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor ( 2 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. After Uriah had been killed in the siege of Rabbah (2 Samuel 11:17), Bathsheba mourned Uriah, but then David took Bathsheba into his house and made her his wife, and she gave birth (2 Samuel 11:26–27).ĭavid's action was displeasing to the Israelite god Yahweh ('the Lord'), who sent Nathan the prophet to reprove the king. David had Uriah himself carry the message that led to his death (2 Samuel 11:6–15). Anonymous 17th-century painting.Īfter repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sexual intercourse with Bathsheba failed, king David gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed on the front lines of the battle, where Uriah would be more likely to die. Rather than go home to his own bed, he preferred to remain with the palace troops.ĭavid 'seducing' Bathsheba. ![]() But Uriah was unwilling to violate the ancient kingdom rule applying to warriors in active service. 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 have sex with her and think that the child belonged to him. David and Diana Garland regard David's action on Bathsheba as an example of rape in the Hebrew Bible. He desired her and later made her pregnant. He ordered enquiries and found out that she was Bathsheba, wife of Uriah. ![]() David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw a very beautiful woman bathing. Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite.ĭavid's first interactions with Bathsheba are described in 2 Samuel 11, and are omitted in the Books of Chronicles. An Eliam is mentioned in 2 Samuel 23:34 as the son of Ahithophel, who is described as the Gilonite. Jean-Léon Gérôme's depiction of Bathsheba bathing watched by David.īathsheba was the daughter of Eliam ( 2 Samuel 11:3, Ammiel in 1 Chronicles 3:5).
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