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David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The LORD loved him;
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Verse 24. Wife. She had partaken in his affliction and repentance. The Jews say that David told her the divine oracle, which is mentioned 3 Kennicott. 1:13, 17, that her next son should succeed to the throne. Salien ( A. 3000) supposes that he was conceived in May, two months after the death of Bethsabee’s first-born, and came into the world about he time of the Passover.—Solomon, “the pacific.” See 1 Chronicles 22:9. Menochius.
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