Ahithophel

Absalom or Avshalom (אַבְשָׁלוֹם "Father/Leader of/is peace", Standard Hebrew Avšalom, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAḇšālôm), in the Bible, is the third son of David, king of Israel. He was deemed the handsomest man in the kingdom. His sister Tamar had been raped by David's eldest son, Amnon, who was in love with her. Absalom, after waiting two years, revenged by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons (2 Samuel 13): "18. And she had ...

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List of Biblical names - People. Zaanannim, movings; a person asleep Zaavan, trembling Zabad, dowry; endowed Zabbai, flowing Zabbud Zabdi, same as Zabad Zabdiel Zabud Zaccai, pure meat; just Zacheus, pure; clean; just Zaccur, of the male kind; mindful Zachariah, memory of the Lord Zadok, just; justified Zaham, crime; filthiness; impurity Zair, little; afflicted; in tribulation < ...

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The only passage in the Quran which has been brought into connection with the story of Bath-sheba is sura xxxviii. 20-25: "And has the story of the antagonists come to you; when they climbed the wall of the upper chamber, when they came in to David? And when he feared them, they said, 'Fear not; we are two antagonists, one of us hath wronged the other, so judge justly between us. . . . This my brother had ninety-nine ewes and I had one. Then he said, "Give me control of her," and he overcame me in his plea.' David said, 'Verily ...

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The daughter of Eliam (II Samuel 11:3; but of Ammiel according to I Chronicles 3:5), who became the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she became the mother of Solomon. Her father is identified by some scholars with Eliam mentioned in II Samamuel 23:34 as the son of Ahithophel. The real meaning of the Hebrew form of the name "Bathsheba" is not clear. The second part of the name appears in I Chron ...

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Bath-sheba, the granddaughter of Ahithophel, David's famous counselor, was only eight years and eight months of age when her son Solomon was born, while some maintain that she was not older than six (Sanh. 69b). The influence of the evil tempter of humanity brought about the sinful relation of David and Bathsheba. Bath-sheba was making her toilet on the roof of her house behind a screen of wickerwork, when Satan came in the disguise of a bird; David, shooting at it, struck the screen, splitting it; thus Bath-sheba was revealed in her ...

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