And voila —Adonijah’s coup was underway. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. So David’s wife Bathsheba and Nathan, the most influential prophet in Israel, got their ...

Should Adonijah succeed David, his rival Solomon would find himself in great danger. As David's power wanes, Bathsheba's grows. She reminds David of an oath he once may or may not have made to her ...

The biblical story of David and Bathsheba is as dramatic as it is ambiguous: A powerful man sees a beautiful stranger and summons her. She becomes pregnant. The man clumsily tries to cover it up ...

David’s children with them will compete with Bathsheba’s son for the throne. Adonijah, son of Haggith, is David’s oldest living son and has priority in the line of succession. When David is ...

As the story unfolds Nathan the prophet and Bathsheba the mother of David conspire to report to the ailing king that Adonijah his son had already proclaimed himself king without so much as ...

In 1993, Dean Ludwig and Clinton Longnecker co-authored an article for The Journal of Business Ethics titled “The Bathsheba Syndrome: The Ethical Failure of Successful Leaders.” The name of ...