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Bathsheba and David
How Bathsheba and David are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Bathsheba and David were married.
David took Bathsheba while her husband Uriah was away at war and married her once Uriah was dead. After their first child died, she bore David a son, Solomon.
Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:3, King James Version
David sent messengers, and took her
2 Samuel 11:4, King James Version
she became his wife, and bare him a son
2 Samuel 11:27, King James Version
on the seventh day, that the child died
2 Samuel 12:18, King James Version
David comforted Bath-sheba his wife
2 Samuel 12:24, King James Version
Where they cross: 2 Samuel 12:24
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
2 Samuel 11:3
3And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:4
4And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
2 Samuel 11:27
27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
2 Samuel 12:18
18And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
2 Samuel 12:24
24And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.
King James Version