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Old 09-22-2004, 06:03 PM   #1
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Cool Bathsheba, Mother of Soloman

Bathsheba was the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite. King David set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and ordered his commander to retire from him that he may be smitten and die, and he did.
Once Bathsheba's husband was thus dispatched, King David married Bathsheba, his widow.

The prophet Nathan took King David to task for his duplicity and set him up to pass a death sentence on himself by putting before him a request to judge the rich man who took the poor man's only lamb, a parable for what David had done.

My intriguing question is why did God not annoint Absalum, a son of David, the one to rule following David's death ,but instead chose Bathsheba's son, Soloman, and gave this child born of murder the kingdom ? I know that Absalam was already dead before David's death. Is it not odd ?
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because GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. BOOOO! :banghead:
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It seems that even with the first generation, the hebrew charlatans were trying very hard to force a Davidic lineage....
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because GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. BOOOO! :banghead:
I second that. :thumbs:
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I have often thought that Bathsheba was the "Queen of Sheba" and that David is not Solomon's biological father ... can't help it .... reading Sameul I get the impression that David was a eunuch ... after all, he tended his father's sheep.

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I have often thought that Bathsheba was the "Queen of Sheba" and that David is not Solomon's biological father ... can't help it .... reading Sameul I get the impression that David was a eunuch ... after all, he tended his father's sheep.

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I think you got your Shebas crossed.
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My intriguing question is why did God not annoint Absalum, a son of David, the one to rule following David's death...

...I know that Absalam was already dead before David's death.
Um, what's the problem here? Dead guys don't make good kings, I guess.
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Lol!
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Um, what's the problem here? Dead guys don't make good kings, I guess.
The problem is that Absalam turned on his father, was killed , making Soloman, the son of a mother whose husband King David arranged to be killed in order to possess her, the benefactor of a conspiracy to murder.

That does not sound very godly to me.
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Scripture says that a child will not be punished for the sins of his father. Solomon was not to blame for the circumstances of his conception and birth.


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