Bible Verses about βbathshebaβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about bathsheba across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.β
βCreate in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.β
βBehold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.β
βRestore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit.β
βCast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.β
βΒΆ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.β
βThe sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.β
βHide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.β
βWash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.β
βFor I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me.β
βAgainst thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.β
βMake me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice.β
βΒΆ Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth [it] not?β
βFor thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it]: thou delightest not in burnt offering.β
βAnd David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.β
β[Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.β
βAnd Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her [that had been the wife] of Urias;β
βBehold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.β
βΒΆ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.β
βThen shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.β
βΒΆ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.β
βO Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.β
βDo good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.β
βAnd David sent and enquired after the woman. And [one] said, [Is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?β
βΒΆ And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.β
βAnd it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon.β
βAnd David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.β
βAnd when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.β
βAnd Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [as] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.β
βAnd when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.β
βAnd the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I [am] with child.β
βΒΆ And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.β
βAnd when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded [of him] how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.β
βAnd David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess [of meat] from the king.β
βBut Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.β
βAnd when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey? why [then] didst thou not go down unto thine house?β
βAnd David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.β
βAnd when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.β
βΒΆ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah.β
βAnd he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.β
βAnd it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men [were].β
βAnd the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell [some] of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.β
βThen Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;β
βAnd charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,β
βAnd if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?β
βWho smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.β
βSo the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.β
βAnd the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.β
βAnd the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and [some] of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.β
βThen David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.β
