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David Takes Uriah’s Wife, but the LORD Sees
Bathsheba mourns Uriah, then David brings her into his house and she bears a son. The narrator breaks David’s apparent success with the decisive verdict that what David did displeased the LORD.
Matthew identifies Solomon's mother indirectly as 'her that had been the wife of Urias,' deliberately recalling the David-Bathsheba-Uriah story rather than simply naming Bathsheba.
First Kings later gives an inspired retrospective that David generally did what was right before YHWH except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite, explicitly singling out the sin narrated in 2 Samuel 11. The later verdict confirms the exceptional gravity of David’s abuse, adultery, and orchestrated killing.
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