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This person was Uriah the Hittite's wife. She was the daughter of Eliam. She went to David when she was called and slept with him.
Who was Bathsheba?
This was the nation Israel was fighting against when David stayed back.
Who are the Ammonites?
This is how God felt about all that David had done in chapter 11.
What is displeased?
This was what the story Nathan told was truly about.
Who is David?
This is what David did when he saw Batsheba lying on her rooftop.
What is adultery? (sleeping with another man's wife)
This person was married to Bathsheba. He was placed at the front lines to be killed, and was killed. He also refused to sleep in his own home while the Ark and his fellow soldiers were encamped in battle.
Who was Uriah?
This was the object they took to war to represent God's divine presence.
What is the holy ark?
This is what God did to communicate to David?
What is "send the prophet Nathan"?
This is what God (through Nathan) reported would never leave David's life becuse he made sure Uriah was killed by him getting attacked by the Ammonites.
What is the sword?
This is what David tried to convince Uriah to do to cover up the fact that David got her pregnant.
What is "get him to go home and sleep with her"?
This was the commander of the Israelite army who carried out David's secret order to place Uriah at the front lines.
Who was Joab?
This is what Joab claimed "went wrong" that resulted in Uriah getting killed.
What is "getting too close to the wall"?
God (indirectly) reminded David that he had saved him from the hands of this person.
Who is Shaul?
Nathan prophesied that becuse David acted in secret, what would happen to him?
What is getting punished in front of everyone?
When David could not get Uriah to go home, this is what he tried to do to him.
What is getting him drunk?
This was the second son born to David and Batsheba? He was named Jedidiah by God, and this by Batsheba.
Who was Solomon?
This is what Joab did after the drama between David and Batsheba had concluded.
What is "attack Rabbah of Ammon and captured the royal city"?
This is how God responded to David's repentance.
What is remitted his sin?
This is the consequence God put on David and Batsheba's first son.
What is made him ill and die in the first seven days?
This is what David did at the start of the chapter that initially got him into the situation he got into.
What is not going to war with everyone else?
This person was the son of Jerubbesheth. He was killed by a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall at Thebez.
Who was Abimelech?
This is what Joab said would happen if David did not get his troops to capture the city in the Ammonite territory.
What is "capture it himself and get the credit for it"?
God gave David's son the name Jedidiah, which means this.
What is beloved of God?
What was the goal of David's mourning of his first son before his death?
What is "to make God pity on him"?
This is what David told Joab to do to Uriah.
What is "put him on the front lines to make sure he gets killed"?