and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;
David had many sons, and his quiver was full of arrows as the Psalmist loved to sing; but some were his deepest grief. Only Solomon truly followed his piety, yet even he fell short. The wisest among us are those who reprove us faithfully, and David honored Nathan the prophet all his life for doing so.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 3:1-9
Thirteen sons were born to David in Jerusalem, four of them by Bathsheba. The three accounts of his sons, here, in chapter 14, and in Samuel, show slight variations in the names and number, some owing to early death, others to shifts in how the names were pronounced or written down across the generations.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 3:5-9
These four sons were born to him by Bathsheba in Jerusalem, but David had others by his wives besides. He kept at least ten concubines, whose sons are passed over in silence here, we cannot number them. Tamar, their sister, was Absalom's sister only, born of the same mother.
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