David's wife living at the time of United Monarchy
Bathsheba
The daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite. David saw her bathing, sent for her, and she conceived. He tried to cover it up and then arranged for Uriah to be killed in battle, and took her as his wife (2 Samuel 11). Nathan rebuked David, and the first child died, but David comforted her, and she bore Solomon: “Yahweh loved him” (2 Samuel 12:24–25). When David was old she went to him with Nathan and secured the throne for Solomon (1 Kings 1:11–31). Matthew names her only as “her who had been Uriah’s wife” in the genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:6).
Family
- Father
- Eliam
- Husbands
- David, Uriah
- Children
- Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon