Bible History Unmasked: Part 3: Bathsheba: From Roof to Royalty — The Political Matriarch

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The prayer of Jabez.

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Oh, that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory.

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Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.

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Father God, we come before you this day asking that you would indeed bless us,

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not just with what we have, but in who we are becoming.

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Enlarge our territory, Lord. Expand our capacity, our mindset,

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and our ability to receive what you have for us.

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Let your hand be upon us, guiding us, covering us, and leading us in every decision we make.

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And Father, keep us from harm, physically, emotionally, and spiritually,

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that we may walk in peace and not in pain.

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And Lord, just as you heard Jabez when he cried out to you, Hear us now.

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Your word says that you granted his request, and we believe that you are the same God today.

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So we come boldly before you, knowing that you hear us, knowing that you see

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us, and knowing that you respond to the prayers of your people.

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Have your way in this moment as we sit, listen, and receive your word.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hello, and welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast. We're still continuing

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with our long-term study, our summer series of Black History Unmasked.

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But we're in part three of the story of Bathsheba. And today's title is Bathsheba,

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the Political Matriarch, Strategic Survival, Maternal Alliance, and Palace Power.

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And so I'm welcoming you all back to Bible History Unmasked.

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We learned in episode one, we met Bathsheba through the myth of the root,

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We slowed the scripture down and saw that she was not introduced as a temptress.

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She was a woman seen from a place of power, summoned by a king,

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and pulled into the consequences of David's decision.

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In episode two, we followed the casualties of the crown. Uriah was killed,

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and she would mourn the child's death, her husband's death.

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David's household was shaken, and we saw that when leaders abuse power,

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Innocent people often carry the consequences.

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But in episode three, it takes on a new chapter.

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Bathsheba is not only the woman that David summoned.

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She is now the mother of Solomon. She is now a woman inside the palace.

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She is now a royal mother with memory, wisdom, and political awareness.

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She has seen what palace power can do. She has survived what palace power can take.

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And now she moves within the same place, palace system, to protect the promise

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attached to her son, Solomon.

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This episode is called The Political Matriot because Bathsheba is not passive in 1 Kings 1.

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She is strategic. She listens. She acts. She enters the king's chamber.

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She speaks directly to David. She reminds him of his oath.

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She works in alignment with the prophet Nathan. and her action helped secure Solomon's throne.

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Bathsheba moved from being summoned by power to speaking of power.

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Now that's a major shift.

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So we understand that Bathsheba as a woman, remember she's a black woman,

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that she learned how to work the system,

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that she was placed in. She did not choose David. David chose her,

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and all the consequences that followed was all about David.

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But for some reason, Bathsheba did not leave. Bathsheba stayed.

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And so we'll see a different Bathsheba. We're going to see her as a political monarch.

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So going to be in 1 Kings chapter 1. We're going to walk through verse by verse on this story.

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It's really about Bathsheba, but you know, David is in the story because it's his story too, okay?

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And so we understand the ethnicity of David when I said ethnicity of Bathsheba.

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So I want you to get in that frame of mind of what we're listening to.

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This is black history on mass.

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These characters, we were never thought to see them as anything but white,

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but they are not white characters in the Bible, they are black.

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We learn that they're from hams, shims, right? That's their heritage.

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And we were introduced to the Hittite, which is really, we think about as part of Canaan history.

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Uriah the Hittite came from Hep. Remember, we go all the way back to Genesis,

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the genealogy and we learned that in the beginning. That's why that was so important.

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That's why I spent a lot of time on that.

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So let's talk about 1 Kings 1 through 4.

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Now we're seeing David in a different light.

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David is now old, he's weak, and now his kingdom is vulnerable.

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We know that was going to be a challenge because God already spoke to us about that in 2 Samuel.

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And so his life, because he's getting old, does not change what God has already

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said will happen to his family.

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And so let's go to chapter 1, and we'll read verses 1 through 4.

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And now King David was old and stricken in years, and they covered him with

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clothes, but he got no heat.

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Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let thou be sought for thy lord,

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the king, a young virgin,

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and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie

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in thy bosom, that my lord thy king may get heat.

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So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coast of Israel and found

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Abishak, a Shunammite, and brought her before the king.

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The damsel was very fair and cherished the king and ministered to him,

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but the king knew her not.

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So this was a time when David was old and weak. His body couldn't hold any heat.

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They needed somebody warm to keep him warm. But then it ends and says that David

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knew her not. So David was...

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Not having relations with this lady. He was just like a heating pad, right?

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And so now we see that David was old and advanced in years. And so we see this

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episode starts off with David near the end of his life, but he's no longer a strong warrior king.

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He is old. He's physically weak. His body cannot keep him warm.

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His servants bring Eshapashah, the Shunammite, to attend to him.

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But the text makes it clear that David was not intimate with her.

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This detail matters because it shows the kingdom is entering a dangerous season.

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When a king becomes weak and secession is not secure, the palace becomes unstable.

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Ambition rises. Alliances form.

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People begin positioning themselves for power.

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David's weakness creates a political opening, but in that opening,

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Anonijah moves. When leadership becomes weak and succession is unclear,

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power struggles often rise quickly.

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The palace was not peaceful. It was vulnerable. One thing I'm learning about

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the Bible is I read the Old Testament, New Testament. It's not my first time

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reading about these biblical characters who are really real characters.

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It's my first time taking the time to understand the background of the story.

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Because we can say I read the Bible through in a year, but that don't really

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mean anything. if you don't take time and understand what was happening at that time.

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So we understand that for some reason, David is getting old,

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but he is not yet appointed an heir to the throne. That's interesting, right?

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But yet they're still allowing him to have these vulnerable women around him for heat.

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He said he didn't know this lady, but why that lady, right? Why her?

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I mean, so things in a Bible. It says, well, they wanted someone to keep them warm. Hello. Hello.

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What was Bathsheba doing? How come Bathsheba was not keeping her husband warm?

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Isn't that interesting to say? So they were not sharing the same bed.

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Now, I read the story before and never thought about that, but that comes to mind today.

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Why? Because we put on our thinking patch so we can pay attention, right?

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And we have the mind of Christ on so that we can understand some things that we didn't see before.

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We also have a sound mind, right? A powerful mind. a disciplined mind,

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that God is allowed to show us things that we just kind of brush over.

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So I want you to understand that, that this is interesting. This is something

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that we come on with, that Sheba already gave birth to Solomon.

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We don't know that backstory. There's a lot of story about David.

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David's story carries a lot of parts of the Bible.

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But for the sake of this episode, all we know is David is cold. David is old.

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And David is vulnerable. The kingdom is vulnerable.

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But yet they hire somebody to keep him warm. Interesting. Let's keep going.

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1 Kings 1, we're going to go read verses 5 through 10. This is about Adonijah.

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When Adonijah, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying, I will be king,

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and he prepared him chariots and horsemen and 15 men to run before him.

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And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, why has that done so?

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He also was a very goodly man and his mother bared him after Absalom.

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So we see here that Bathsheba was not the mother.

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Adonijah or Absalom. Those were two different women.

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So now you can understand why she might not be keeping David warm in his old

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age because David was still doing these things, right?

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And I'm just talking. I don't know, but we're going to read the Bible as it

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is. And his father was not displeased.

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So Adonijah decides that I'm going to run for king, but David didn't say, no, you're not the king.

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Solomon always was the one for the throne.

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They know that from way, especially with this relationship, because God is creating his lineage.

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These two, Adonijah and Absalom, were not part of Bathsheba's children.

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And he conferred with Joab, the son of Zariah, and with Abathar,

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the priest, and they followed Adonijah and helped him.

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Now, Adonijah, think about it. Here goes Joab. Joab is helping Adonijah become the crown.

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And we got these other people who are taking advantage of David, who is now old and cold.

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But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehida, and Nathan the prophet,

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and Shimei, and Rhea, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

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And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoleth,

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which is by Enrogel, Enrogel, and called all his brethren to...

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The king's son, and all the men to Judah, the king's servant.

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But Nathan, the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon,

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and his brother, he called Nih. Wow.

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So now there's going to be a division in the kingdom.

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I mean, this is like a great soap opera. There's a division in the kingdom.

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But while that division has happened, while David is cold and getting old,

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and he's thinking about being warm.

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Kind of forgot about that he's a king and that if he doesn't say anything,

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then you're going to have other people rising up to take the throne.

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So we see Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, exalted himself saying, I will be king.

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Adonijah was one of David's sons. After the deaths or failures of older sons

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like Anon and Absalom, Adonijah may have believed the throne should be his.

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But the text says something important. Adonijah exhausted himself.

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So that story's about when God put that word on David in 2 Samuel,

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we know that Absalom died. I think he had long hair. He died from hanging from his hair.

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And Amnon, I don't remember how he died, but they weren't around.

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So now we have this fight against Adonijah and Solomon. Solomon hasn't said a word yet, right?

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But Adonijah said, no one's going to say anything. I'm going to go ahead and exalt myself.

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But he was not appointed. He did not receive public confirmation from David.

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He did not wait for prophetic work.

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He declared himself that I will be king. That phrase shows ambition without authorization.

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Adonijah gathers serious horsemen and men to run before him.

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This looked like a public campaign for kingship.

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He also received support from important figures like, guess who, Joab.

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So, you know, Joab might have a little bit of something in his heart.

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Remember, he was part of that.

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That storyline where he was called by David to help kill Uriah.

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So that could be that friction that's happening here.

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And it says, including Joab, the military commander and avatar the priest.

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Now you got the priest, the military commander, choosing the next person to

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be on the throne. And I don't hear God in this one, do you? And so that's what

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makes it serious. The commander and the priest are together.

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This is not just a family disagreement.

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This is an attempt at a royal takeover. Adonijah is building a coalition.

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But notice he does not invite Nathan the prophet, prophet Benaiah the mighty

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man, Solomon and other royal, royal, other people.

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Other people loyal to David and his plan. This matters because Adonijah knows

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exactly who may oppose him.

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He gathers the people who supported

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his ambition and leaves out the people connected to Solomon's future.

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So Adonijah knows that Solomon is next in line, right? This is not,

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this is Black history story. So now we're getting how this story started to unfold.

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So Ananias did not simply desire the throne.

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He organized to take the throne. This was not confusion. This was a political move by Ananias.

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Let's go to 1 Kings 1, 11 through 14. Let's see what happens next.

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Wherefore Nathan spoke unto Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon,

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saying, Has thou not heard that Ananias, the son of Haggith,

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does reign? And David, our Lord, knoweth it not?

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Now, therefore, let me, I pray, give thee counsel that thou mayest save thy

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own life and the life of thy son Solomon.

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Go and get thee into the king David and say unto him, Does not thou,

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my lord, O king, swear unto,

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thy handmaiden, saying, Or surely Solomon, thy son, should reign after me,

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and he should sit up on the throne?

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Why does Anijah reign? behold while thou yet talkest there with the king I also

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will come in after thee and confirm thy words let's do a little commentary on.

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Adonijah. The little meaning of Adonijah is Hebrew, is that my Lord is God.

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Adonijah was the fourth son of David and apparently was the oldest living son

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because it was assumed that he would be the next king.

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There were certain protocols around the African-American people who believed

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their king or chiefs represented the presence of God.

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The image and the work of the human rulers tend to be readily projected onto the image of God.

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So people in these high positions, for instance, David represented what? God in those positions.

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That's why God said to David, you know, this displeased me.

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This displeased me. This is not why I put you in the throne.

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Now we have some drama in the family where Adonijah is saying,

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if David ain't saying nothing, that I'm going to be the king.

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So now Ananijah is actually sitting on the throne, being king because nobody told him to move.

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So we see here also that Nathan talked to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon.

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This is one of the most important things that Bathsheba does.

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That Nathan, the prophet, goes to Bathsheba. Nathan is a prophet.

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He knows the lineage. He knows how the story is supposed to turn out.

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But he goes to Bathsheba and asks Bathsheba to do some things.

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Nathan could have gone directly to David alone, but he does not.

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He goes to Bathsheba first. He recognizes that she has a role in this moment.

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He understands that Bathsheba is not just Solomon's mother.

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She is a political actor with access to the king and direct stake in the promise.

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Nathan tells Bathsheba that Adonijah has become king and David knows it not. So he's playing king.

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Then he gives her counsel to save her own life, the life of Solomon.

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Once he took kingship, you know, next thing that's going to happen is Adonijah

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is going to put out an order, a death warrant for the mom, for everybody who's

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going to maybe take that throne from him.

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So Nathan says, here, I have this plan for you.

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This tells us that danger is not symbolic.

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It was about life and death. In ancient royal succession, when one son took

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the throne, rival heirs of their mother could become targets.

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He's not the king yet, but he's all comfortable thinking he is going to be the king.

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But if he decides to secure the throne, Solomon and Bathsheba would be seen as threats.

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So Nathan was, his warning was urgent. This was not gossip.

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This was survival. So Nathan tells Bathsheba to go to David and remind him of his oath.

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Did you not swear to your servant saying, Solomon, your son should reign after

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me and he should sit on my throne?

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Then Nathan says, he will come in after him and confirm the word.

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So you go in first and you ask this question. And when you finish asking that

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question, then I'm going to walk

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in And then I'm going to confirm what you just said. This is strategy.

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Bathsheba will speak first. Nathan will confirm second. And together they will

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present a united witness before David.

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David, Nathan approached showing that Bathsheba had influence.

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Why? Because he still had access to the king.

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You know, she still had political influence over the king.

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Remember, it was her idea to get this other girl to keep her husband warm.

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She was not for God in the palace. She was necessary in this crisis.

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Let's go to verse 15 to 21.

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This is when Bathsheba enters into the king's chamber. Remember, David is still king.

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Whether he's old and cold, he is still the ruler that God had in place for this season.

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And it says in verse 15, And Bathsheba went in unto the king,

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unto the shamers, and the king was very old.

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And Ashabah the Shunammite ministered unto the king.

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And Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king.

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And the king said, what will thou do? So she came in, not as a wife, but as a queen.

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We know about Esther, what that protocol was.

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So she entered in and she did obedience. So she bowed. She did the courtesy of David being the king.

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And Abshah, the lady who was keeping her warm, was making sure that he was comfortable.

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And it says then, But Sheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king.

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Verse 17, And she said unto him, My lord, thou swear by the lord thy God unto

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thy handmaid, saying, Surely Solomon thy son should reign after me,

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and he should sit upon my throne.

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Wow. And now behold, Adonijah reign.

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And now my lord the king, thou knowest it not. And he has slain oxen and fat

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cattle and sheep in abundance.

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Of the host. But Solomon, my servant, has not been called.

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And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee,

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that thou should tell them who should sit on the throne of my lord and king after him.

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Otherwise, it should come to pass that my lord, the king, should sleep with

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his fathers, that I and my son Solomon should be counted offenders.

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So Bathsheba walked in.

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She's saying, You don't even know what's going on, and I'm here to tell you what's going on.

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She was really direct. She came into the chamber.

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She didn't hesitate. She bows and pays respect to the king, but she also speaks

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to him clearly and directly.

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This is a different Bathsheba than the one we saw in 2 Samuel 11.

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In 2 Samuel, David sent for Bathsheba. In 1st King, Bathsheba goes to the king, which is King David.

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In 2 Samuel, king's power moved towards her in 1 Kings. She moves with purpose

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into the king's presence.

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That contrast is powerful. So we see a change.

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In Bathsheba. Bathsheba reminds David of his oath.

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She tells him that Adonijah has made himself king.

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She tells him that the people are waiting to see what David will do,

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and she names the danger.

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If David does not ask, she and Solomon will be counted as offenders. That's a powerful word.

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Bathsheba understands what's at stake.

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She knows if Adonijah claims to see her son's life may be at risk,

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her own life may be at risk, and their future may be erased.

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So she speaks like a mother, she speaks like a survivor, and she speaks as a

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woman who understands what is happening and how this power structure works.

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She does not beg without a strategy.

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She makes it clear. David must publicly name Solomon as successor before Adonijah

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claims become permanent.

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Bathsheba is not silent here. She is informed, she's strategic, and she is courageous.

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She steps into the palace crisis to protect her son Solomon's future.

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Let's see what happens. What does Nathan does? Remember, I already had a plan,

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so we're just peeking into the window.

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And listening. And we have the script right here. And so verses 22 to 27.

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And lo, while she will yet talk with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.

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And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he has come

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in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

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And Nathan said, My lord, O king, as thou said, Adonijah should reign after

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me, and he should sit upon my throne.

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For he has gone down this day and has slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in

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abundance and has called all the king's son and the captains of the host and abathard the priest.

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And behold, they eat and drink before him and say, God save king Adonijah.

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So they're getting set up for the big old coronation party. Verse 26.

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But me, even me, thy servant and Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoshaphat

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and thy servant Solomon has not been called.

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Is this thing done by my Lord, the king, and thou should not show it unto thy servant?

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Who should sit on the throne of my lord, the king, after him?

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Think about that. So you got, they're asking, he really, Nathan really said

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the same thing that Bathsheba did.

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So if David didn't hear it the first king, David didn't hear it the first time,

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he might have heard it the second time.

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But Nathan enters in exactly as he had planned it.

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This confirms that Bathsheba and Nathan, they're working together.

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Wow, they are not acting random. They have this coordinated approach.

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Nathan bowed before David and asked whether David has declared Anijah king.

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That's interesting. Asked, is this something you're doing?

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He lists the people Ananias invited and the people he excluded.

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He makes it clear that this action was done without David's known approval.

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Nathan wrote it's important because he gives a prophetic and political weight to Bathsheba.

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Bathsheba speaks from the position of mother and cleanly figure.

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Nathan speaks from the position of prophet.

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Together they confront the secession together. Its alliance is powerful.

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Bathsheba's voice is not isolated. Nathan's prophetic authority strengthens

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the truth she has already brought.

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So they're working together. Remember,

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Nathan was the one that prophesied against David after Bathsheba.

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So he didn't even know Bathsheba, but he probably knew of her.

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But look how they're working together. So Bathsheba and Nathan shows the power

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of wise alliance. Survival requires discernment, timing, and trusted voices.

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Think about this, that they're working together to save the throng.

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Because Adonijah is already setting up a party. Let's go to 1 Kings 28-31 and see what happens here.

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Then King David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the

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king's presence and stood before the king.

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And the king swore and said, As the Lord liveth, that has redeemed my soul out

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of all distress, even as I swore unto thee

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by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Or surely Solomon thy son shall reign after

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me, and he should sit upon my throne and my stead.

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Even so will I certainly do this day.

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Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and did reverence to the king

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and said, let my Lord King David live forever.

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So Nathan, Bathsheba walked in first, said what she had to say.

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She walked out or sat in the back and then he said, where's Bathsheba?

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After Bathsheba and Nathan speak, David responds. King David responds.

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He goes Bathsheba back into his presence and make this declaration.

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He swears by the Lord who redeems his soul out of every adversity that Solomon

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will reign after him and sit on his throne that very day.

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This is the moment when the crisis turns.

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David does not simply comfort Bathsheba. He acts, confirms Solomon publicly.

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Faith in Bathsheba bows with her face to the ground and honors the king saying,

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Let my Lord King David live forever.

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This is powerful because this is how Bathsheba, he listened to her,

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right? He honored her word.

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He remembered what he had said to her.

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And so that moment that Bathsheba's accession as a political maturator,

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she enters the king's chamber with urgency, reminded David of his own.

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Exposed the danger and helped move David into action.

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Solomon's throne is not secure because Bathsheba stays silent.

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It's secure because she says something. She reminded David,

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of his oath from what God told him. But Bathsheba at this time,

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because you know, you got a man that really loves the Lord. He made a mistake.

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He made an error. He got right back before the Lord and he repented,

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but he still had earthy consequences.

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So David had access to God, right? And so he says that just that moment,

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how she mentioned it, Nathan mentioned it, and then God must've said,

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yep, confirm that word in him.

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And then David spoke and he remembered Right. That's interesting.

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You got to understand that he was a man after God's heart.

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So yeah, he made some errors, but he still had that insight,

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that answer. He remembered.

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And that was because Bathsheba was told that Solomon would reign.

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Let's go to 1 Kings. Let's go to verses 32 to 40.

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And King David said, call me Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Abaniah,

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the son of Jehoah, and they came before the king. My gosh. So the king summoned

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the people who were hanging out with Adonijah.

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The king also said unto them, take with you the servants of your Lord and call

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Solomon, my son, to ride upon my own mule and bring him down to Gihon.

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And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet annoy him there,

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king over Israel, and blow ye the trumpet and say, God saved the king Solomon.

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Then he shall come up after him, and he should come and sit upon my throne,

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for he should be king in my stead.

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And I have appointed him to be the ruler over Israel and over Judah.

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And Benaiah, the son of Joheda, answered the king and said, Amen,

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the Lord God of my lord, the king says so too.

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And the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so he be with Solomon.

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And make his throne greater than the throne of my Lord David.

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That's the priest talking. So

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Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoshaphat

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and the Sherathites and the Pelathites went down and called Solomon to ride

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upon King David's mule and brought him to Jehon.

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And Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon.

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And they blew the trumpet. And all the people said, God save King Solomon. And.

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And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes and rejoiced

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with great joy, so that the earth rent the sound of him. Excuse me.

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So Zadok the priest, remember, these are people that were over there with Adonijah.

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But guess who summoned them? They all got summoned to the king's presence.

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And he said, this is what we're going to do. David gives the instruction.

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He didn't wait a day. He didn't give 24 hours. He didn't need any sleep.

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He knew right away what he needed to do to secure Solomon's throne. So he gave him the plan.

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David gives the instructions. Solomon is to ride on David's own mule,

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be taken to Jihad and anointed king by Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet.

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This public ceremony matters because royal power had to be seen and recognized.

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Solomon riding David's mule showed royal endorsement.

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The anointing shows sacred confirmation. and the trumpet and public proclamation

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shows national announcement.

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The people shout, long live King Solomon.

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The city rejoices, and this public answers to Adonijah's private ambition.

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Adonijah tried to exalt himself in private, but God made Solomon's in public.

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Wow. So Solomon was publicly anointed. Adonijah gathered supporters on feet.

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While he's doing that, in the background, Solomon receives David's command,

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priestly anointing, prophetic confirmation, and public recognition.

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Bathsheba intervention helped trigger this official transfer.

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Adonijah promoted himself, but Solomon was appointed, anointed,

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and publicly confirmed.

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This is the difference between ambition and ambition.

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And assignment. Wow, there's so much more. You got to hear what happens next.

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Oh my gosh, there were some things that happened. This is a good story.

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I want to read from verse 40.

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And the people came and they piped with joy. Adonijah and all the guests that

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were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating.

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And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise

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and the city being in an uproar?

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And while he guest spoke, behold, Jonathan, the son of Abahar,

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the priest came, and Adonijah said unto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant

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man, bring his good tiding.

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And Jonathan answered and said unto Adonijah, Really, our Lord King David has made Solomon king.

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And the king has sent with him Zodak the priest, and Nathan the prophet,

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and Benaiah the son of Jehoda, and the Sherathites and the Pelathites,

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and that they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule.

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And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king of Gihon,

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and they are come up from thence rejoicing. So the city rang again.

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This is the noise that you have heard.

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And also Solomon is seated on the throne of the kingdom. Moreover,

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the king's servants came to bless our Lord King David, saying,

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God, make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make thy throne greater than thy throne.

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And the king bowed himself upon the bed. And also, thus says the king,

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blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which has given one to sit on my throne this

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day, my eyes even seeing it.

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And all the guests that were with Adonijah was afraid and rose up and went every man their way.

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So they ended that party really quick because they over there worshiping the

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wrong king and that can get you killed in this type of environment.

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And Adonijah feared because of Solomon and rose and went and caught hold of the horns of the altar.

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So he ran into and grabbed the horns of the altar because he knew he was wrong.

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And let's see what happened. Adonijah feared Solomon and he went and grabbed

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the horns of the altar. And it was told Solomon saying, behold,

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Adonijah fears King Solomon.

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For lo, he had caught hold of the horns of the altar saying,

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let King Solomon swear to me this day that he will not slay a servant with a sword.

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And Solomon said, if he will show himself a worthy man, there should not be

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a hair on him fall to the earth.

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But if wickedness should be found in him, he should die.

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So King Solomon sent and they brought him down from the altar.

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And he came and bowed himself to King Solomon.

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And Solomon said unto him, go to thine house. So Solomon said,

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I'm not going to kill you.

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I'm not going to kill you. I want to see if you're really going to be honest,

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if you're going to keep the peace, or you're going to still keep the drama going.

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He said, I need to see him. And he saw him. He said, I want you to go to your

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house. But Adonijah wasn't done, so you got to finish reading that story.

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But it's not about Adonijah today. It's about Queen Bathsheba.

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Okay, so Adonijah, you know, we pointed himself.

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So let's close this out. We see here in episode three that Bathsheba's story

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changed direction in the eyes of us and what we see in her.

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As we listen to this story, we start to see her in a different light.

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Many people only know Bathsheba from 2 Samuel 11.

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They remember the roof, the bath, the pregnancy, and David's sin.

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But 1 King Juan shows Bathsheba differently.

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She is not voiceless. She is not erased. She is not powerless.

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She is a mother protecting her son. She is a royal woman navigating palace politics.

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She is a survivor who learned how power moves. This is why her story must not

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just stop at the rooftop.

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But she was already experienced damage of palace power. She knew what it meant

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to be pulled into the king's world.

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She knew what it meant to lose a husband. She knew what it meant to lose a child.

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She knew what it meant to live inside a royal house where decisions could mean life or death.

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So Nathan, when Nathan comes to her, she understands the urgency.

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This is not merely about Solomon's getting a title.

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It's about survival. If Adonijah becomes king, Bathsheba and Solomon will be

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treated as enemies of the throne.

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Nacon even tells her that his counsel meant to save her life and Solomon's life.

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That means Bathsheba was not being dramatic. She was being realistic.

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Her wisdom is shown in her timing. She doesn't wait until Adonijah is fully established.

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She acts while David is still alive and still has authority to confirm Solomon.

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Her courage is shown in her speech.

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She enters the king's chamber and she tells David the truth.

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Her strategy is shown in her alliance. She works with Nathan,

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allowing her testimony and his prophetic confirmation to reinforce one another.

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Her motherhood is shown in her mission. She works with Nathan.

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Wow. Her mother is shown her mission. She is not just trying to win power for

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herself. She's protecting the son connected to David's oath in God's plan.

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So God knows how to put people in the wrong place at the wrong time,

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but then turn that around for good because she knows he knows the heart of his

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people and those in his lineage.

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So we see Bathsheba in a different role.

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She's not just a woman that David took. She's not just a widow.

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She's not just a grieving mother. We see her now as a political matriarch who

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helps secure the throne.

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Let's talk about the characters that were involved in ethnicity here.

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Bathsheba appeared to be an Israelite woman. We understood that the last.

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Of episodes that throughout scripture does not directly identify her tribe.

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By episode three, she's no longer described in relation to Uriah.

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She is specifically called the mother of Solomon. See, it's shifted.

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This matters because in the royal world, the mother of the king held important influence.

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Bathsheba's role is moving towards what will later be seen more clearly in 1

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Kings 2.9, where Solomon honors her with the throne in his right hand. We'll get to that next.

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David, we know, is an Israelite from the tribe of Judah. He is an Asian king.

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Whose house is now facing secession and civility. But we know David Rowland's

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episode is different from the first two episodes.

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In this episode, David must use his remaining authority to secure proper secession.

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David, final responsibility is to make clear who will sit on the throne.

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We here introduce Solomon. Now, Solomon is not a white man either.

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We see him all the time with light skin.

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But Solomon is the son of David and Bathsheba, who are what? They are not white.

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He is Israelite through David's royal line, and it's connected to the tribe of Judah through David.

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His name is connected to peace. The Hebrew name Solomon is related to Shalom, meaning peace.

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That is significant because Solomon rise comes after a household full of conflict,

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bloodshed, and rivalry.

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Solomon's throne is not just a family promotion.

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It's a part of David's continuation of his royal line. Nathan,

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we don't really know what his ethnicity is.

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Nathan is a prophet who confronted David in 2 Samuel 12, and now he partners

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with Bathsheba in 1 Kings 1.

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That's important because Nathan was present when David's story,

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when truth had to confront Seth.

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Now Nathan is present again when truth must confront political deception.

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Nathan represents prophetic accountability.

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He does not disappear after David's confession. He remains connected to the

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integrity of the royal house. So he was a prophet to the king.

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Adonijah was one of David's sons, but was a son of Haggith.

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He exiled himself and declared that he would be king. His action mirrored earlier

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royal rebellion, especially the ambition seen in Absalom's story.

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Adonijah gathers serious horsemen and supporters, creating an image of kingship

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before receiving the proper confirmation.

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This story shows a danger of self.

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Exaltation. We see here Job and Abathar. Joab, David's military commander,

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supports Adonijah. Abathar, the priests, also support him.

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Their involvement makes Adonijah attempt more serious.

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This is not a minor family disagreement. It includes military and religious

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support. You know, that's the most dangerous.

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Military and religious support. However, Nathan, the prophet,

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Zadok the priest, but Naiah and others remain outside of Adeliah's circle and

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becomes part of Solomon's confirmation.

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We see here that there were two different priests, one for David and one against David.

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And when this got out, you know, David was like, okay, now I see who my friends

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are. We saw that Bathsheba in this particular episode spoke more

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now than she did in the beginning of her trauma.

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We see here that Nathan and Bathsheba seem to have some type of relationship

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of trust. And not just trust, but that trust was in God and Nathan is a confirmation

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of what God had told David and Bathsheba.

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And we see here that Ananias said, I will be king. And that was not the right thing.

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He promoted himself. And then he was afraid because he knows what happens when you go before us.

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Pretty much we call treason in our time.

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You know, I see the promotion of David, of Solomon, he's riding on David's mule

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and that shows royal succession.

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And Gihan, when we talk about Gihan, he was in charge of making a public announcement.

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And so everything about what happened with Solomon wasn't hidden.

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It was actually revealed perfectly.

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And we love that, but she was no longer quiet, that she acted fast before Adonijah

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could establish his royal priesthood instead of Solomon.

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This teaches us the importance of timing. Some battles are lost because people wait too long to speak.

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I love this because we see that Bathsheba is taking her place.

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She's no longer considered the woman on the roof, the woman David summoned, the widow of Uriah.

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No, she's now known as the mother of Solomon.

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And she was able to speak up for her, speak up for her family.

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And that's what makes it so wise.

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She walked in wisdom, not in silence.

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She was no longer trying to survive. She was just protecting her family.

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She was not passive. So we're going to learn.

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And our final episode of Bathsheba is that her legacy is in the lineage of Jesus Christ.

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She moves from palace to survivor to queen mother, where Matthew genealogy refuses

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to erase the pain, but she becomes part of the promise.

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We now know that Bathsheba moved from being summoned by the crown to help securing the crown.

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So God knows exactly what he's doing.

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So if your life looks like a hot mess right now, don't worry.

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God is still ironing out the wrinkles.

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And guess what? You are in a position of restoration. Just don't give up.

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Bathsheba at any time could have gave up. Bathsheba at any time.

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But Bathsheba said, I'm going to honor the king.

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When we learn how to honor our man, you see how God gave her discernment on

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what to do next. She didn't get that randomly.

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It wasn't like an idea. She was in the right place, right time.

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And she knew exactly what to do.

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So we have to be that way. and not take it personal. If God said you're still

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breathing, God's still got something for you to do.

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Don't care what your past looked like. Don't care what your future is.

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You're in the middle of. As long as you keep having your ears open to God,

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He can rescue you. He can deliver you.

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And He can bring restoration to you and your family. We thank you,

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Jesus. And so this has been your host, Connie Morris.

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This is the Diary of a Black Woman podcast. And I'll see you on episode four. Goodbye.

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Before we close today, I don't wanna take for granted that everyone listening

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knows Jesus personally.

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If you have listened to this episode or any other episodes and felt something stirring in your heart.

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Maybe you know about God, but you're not sure you truly know Him.

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Maybe you grew up in church, walked away, got hurt, became tired,

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and never fully surrendered your life to Jesus.

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I want you to know this. God loves you. He has not forgotten you.

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He is not waiting to shame you.

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He is calling you home.

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The Bible says in Romans 10, 9, if you declare with your mouth,

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Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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Salvation is not about being perfect.

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It's about surrendering to the one who is perfect.

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Jesus died for your sins, rose again, and made a way for you to be forgiven, restored, and made new.

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So right where you are, you can pray this prayer with me.

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Lord Jesus, I come to you today with an open heart. I believe you are the son of God.

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I believe you died on the cross for my sins, and I believe that God raised you from the dead today.

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I confess that I need you. I repent of my sins. I ask you to forgive me,

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cleanse me, and make me brand new.

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Jesus, come into my heart.

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Be my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, and my King.

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I surrender my life to you. I give you my past, my present, and my future.

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Teach me how to walk with you. Fill me with your Holy Spirit.

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Lead me in truth, healing, obedience, and love.

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From this day forward, I belong to you. In Jesus' name, amen.

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If you pray that prayer from your heart, I want you to know that heaven has

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heard you. This is not the end.

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This is only the beginning of your walk with Jesus. Find a Bible-believing church,

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begin reading the word of God, pray daily, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you grow.

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God is not looking for perfection from you. He is inviting you into relationship,

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transformation, and eternal life.

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Through Jesus Christ. And remember, you are loved, you are not forgotten,

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and God still has a purpose for your life.

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Thank you for listening to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast.

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Until next time, keep walking in truth, faith, and freedom.

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Family, thank you for spending time with me today.

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To every woman listening who has ever felt hidden, overlooked,

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or pushed aside, hear me clearly.

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God has not forgotten you, and neither have I.

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Now let's go before the Lord and close this out with a word from God,

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because someone out there needs this reminder today.

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Jeremiah 29, 11, verses 11 through 14.

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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you

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and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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Then when you call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you,

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you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and bring you back from captivity.

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Father God, we thank you for your word, that it is true, that it is living, that it is for us.

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You said you know the plans you have for us, plans to prosper us and not to

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harm us, plans to give us hope and a future.

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So today we receive that, not just in our minds, but in our hearts.

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When we feel overlooked.

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Remind us, you still see us. When we feel forgotten, remind us, you still have a plan.

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And when we feel hidden, remind us, you are still working.

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Your word says that when we call on you, you will listen.

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So we call on you now. Hear us. Strengthen us.

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Guide us. Help us to seek you with our whole heart, not halfway,

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not sometimes, but fully.

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And as we seek you, let us find you in every season, in every place, even the hidden mind.

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Restore what was lost, renew what feels broken, and remind us that nothing in

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our lives is wasted in your hand.

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Lord, we trust you, we believe you, and we stand on your word. In Jesus' name, amen.

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This is Diary of a Black Woman podcast, and I'm your host, Connie Morris,

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and I'll see you on the next episode.