She conceived and gave birth to a son whom she called Solomon. David then prostrated himself in Yahweh’s sanctuary. But since you have outraged Yahweh, the child born to you will die.’ And the child of David and Bathsheba fell ill and died on the seventh day. David then wept to Nathan, and said, ‘I have sinned.’ Nathan answered, ‘Yahweh forgives your sin. Before David’s eyes he would take his wives and give them to his neighbour, who would lie with David’s wives in broad daylight. Nathan prophesied that Yahweh would raise misfortune for David out of his own house. ‘This man should die’, he cried, ‘Who is this rich man?’ Nathan then said to David, ‘You are the man!’ And Nathan told how displeased Yahweh had been with David causing the death of Uriah and taking Uriah’s wife to become David’s wife. Instead he stole the lamb of the poor man and prepared that for his guest. When a traveller came to stay, the rich man did not take anything from his own flock or herd to provide for the wayfarer. The story was about a poor man who had nothing but a ewe lamb and about a rich man who had many. Yahweh sent Nathan with a message to David, with a story. She became his wife and gave birth to a son. When her period of mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her into his house. When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned. The letter said, ‘Put Uriah out in front where the battle is the fiercest and then draw back so that he is killed.’ Joab did this and Uriah the Hittite was killed. But again, Uriah slept with the bodyguard and did not go to his house.ĭavid then wrote a letter to Joab and had this letter be brought by Uriah. The following day David invited Uriah in and made him drunk. Uriah said that in those circumstances he could not go comfortably to his house and eat and drink and sleep with his wife. Uriah answered that the Ark, Israel and Judah were lodged in huts and the warriors camping in the open. David asked Uriah the next day why he had not gone home. Uriah left the palace but did not go to his house and slept at the palace gate. David asked Uriah how Joab was, and then sent him home. Soon after, the woman conceived and she sent word to David that she was pregnant.ĭavid now sent a letter to Joab ordering him to send Uriah to him. David then sent messengers to fetch the woman. David asked who she was and was told, ‘That was Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite’. One evening when David was strolling on the palace roof he saw a woman bathing. David then marched against the Ammonites again and sent Joab to siege Rabbah in Ammonite territory. But David defeated them and killed Shabach the commander of the Aramaean army. The King of the Aramaeans then, Hadadezer, saw this as a threat and sent an even greater army against David. Joab, the commander of the Israelite army, defeated the army of Hanun. Fearing David’s reaction they hired an army of Aramaeans. But Hanun and his princes did not treat David’s ambassadors well. Around 1654.ĭavid sent ambassadors to the new king of the Ammonites, Hanun. Harmensz Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) The Louvre – Paris.
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