Bathsheba is not a well known name in the bible, in fact, she is only known as the wife of David and the mother of Solomon. She was the wife of Uriah the Hittie and David only saw her when she was bathing on her roof. As soon as he saw her, he fell deeply in love with her. He told some of his palace guards to go and fetch her for him and to bring her to the palace. When they did, David seduces her into having sex with him. David hoped that this would go unnoticed by the people of Israel, Uriah, and most of all God. However he was wrong when Bathsheba revealed she was pregnant with Davids child. David did not want his subjects to think that he had committed adultery so he hatched a plan. He called Uriah home and told him that he should go back to his wife. Sadly for David (and Uriah!) he refused and wanted to stay in the war to serve his king. David then sent him back to the front lines with a message telling his general to send Uriah to the front lines. Uriah was killed and David and Bathsheba were married. However, their first child was killed (some say this was Gods punishment) but they had another one, Solomon.
The inclusion of Bathsheba in the genealogy of Jesus shows that Jesus came through a line of crazy women who were screwed over. For example, Bathsheba was the product of a power hungry king who decided he wanted her, killed her husband and then seduced her. He forced her to stay with him because she had his child. She also gave birth to the wisest king of Israel who is related to Jesus. She was basically screwed for life until David was dying. She was able to influence the decision of who become King after David. She was able to influence that her son, Solomon became king of Israel. All the women that were mentioned were very crazy and all screwed over by their husbands and other men in their life.
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well written, goes into great detail about the story. It can go into a little more detail about why she is mentioned in Jesus genealogy.
I agree storngly with Kristen,although the blog was well written it left the reader with no insite to the meaning of her presence in Jesus' genealogy.
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