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1All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. 2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”

Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

3The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

4Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

5Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.” 10So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset. 13Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.” 15Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”. 16He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”

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Bathsheba

Also called Bath-sheba, Bath-shua
Father Eliam
Spouse DavidUriah
Biography | Hershel Wayne House

Bathsheba was originally the wife of Uriah and later became the wife of David and the mother of Solomon. While Uriah was away on military duty, David seduced Bathsheba. To cover up the ensuing pregnancy, David summoned Uriah from the battlefield, pretending to seek an update on the army's progress, and tried to persuade him to go home and sleep with Bathsheba. However, Uriah, adhering to ritual abstinence, refused. In desperation, David arranged for Uriah to be placed on the front lines, where he was killed. After Uriah's death, David married Bathsheba.

The prophet Nathan denounced this marriage and foretold the death of Bathsheba's child, which came to pass. Their second child, Solomon, was favored by God and eventually succeeded David as king instead of his older half-brother Adonijah. When Adonijah sought to marry Abishag the Shunammite, he asked Bathsheba to mediate the request to Solomon. Bathsheba conveyed the request, but Solomon denied it and executed Adonijah for his audacity. References: 2 Sam 11:2-12:25; 1 Kings 1:11-31; 2:13-25; 1 Chronicles 3:5; Ps 51.

Bathsheba does appear in the genealogy of Jesus but is not mentioned by name: "Matt 1:6 Jesse became the father of King David. David the king became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife." See the discussion in Women in the Genealogy of Jesus (1:3-6), 

 https://hvsb.app/WEB/MAT/1/doc/Nm4dmZWllb06iXrFuNlP.

Person & place data: Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse (Viz.Bible), CC BY-SA 4.0.