1. Bathsheba is best known for her appearance in the Book of Samuel, which recounts how she was summoned by David's royal messengers after he witnessed her bathing and lusted after her; David has Uriah killed and then marries Bathsheba, incurring the wrath of God, who strikes down the couple's first child in infancy before plunging the House of David into chaos and anguish.
Bathsheba was the daughter of one of Eliam according to 2 Samuel 11:3 and of Ammiel in 1 Chronicles 3:5.
David's initial interactions with Bathsheba are described in 2 Samuel 11.
Shortly after Bathsheba's first child by David was born, God struck it with a severe illness.
In David's old age, Bathsheba secured Solomon's succession to the throne instead of David's older surviving sons by other wives, based on promises David made to her.
However, in 1 Chronicles the names are very different: Bathsheba is called Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel in 1 Chronicles 3:5.
In medieval typology, Bathsheba is recognized as the antetype foreshadowing the role of Ecclesia, the church personified, as David was the antetype for Jesus.
Bathsheba is venerated in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as a saint.
Bathsheba's name appears in 1 Chronicles 3:5 spelled "Bath-shua", the form becomes merely a variant reading of "Bath-sheba".
The only interpolations that concern the story of Bathsheba are some verses in the early part of the twelfth chapter, that heighten the moral tone of Nathan's rebuke of David.
The Bathsheba incident leads to a shift in the book's perspective; afterwards David "is largely at the mercy of events rather than directing them".
Bathsheba is no longer able to control his family, and ends up being overthrown by Absalom.