Verse Lens · Concise explanation
2 Samuel 12:25 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 25. 25And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
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Quick Meaning
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Bathsheba Bears Solomon.”
Read It With
- 2 Samuel 12:24–25
Read 2 Samuel 12:25 with 12:24–25. The wording “And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of…” supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: David comforts Bathsheba, she bears Solomon, the LORD loves him, and Nathan gives the additional name Jedidiah.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Bathsheba Bears Solomon,” 2 Samuel 12:25 closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition through the wording “And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 2 Samuel 12:16–23 establishes this prior movement: David pleads and lies on the ground while the child lives, then worships and eats after death because the outcome cannot be reversed. 2 Samuel 12:24–25 continues the narrative consequence; that demonstrated relationship, rather than sequence alone, explains its placement.
What Remains True
Power remains accountable for the people it exposes, takes, silences, injures, or kills; truthful memory keeps their bodies, testimony, agency, and cost visible. In this unit, that truth is tested by the concrete movement: David comforts Bathsheba, she bears Solomon, the LORD loves him, and Nathan gives the additional name Jedidiah. In 2 Samuel 12:25, the concrete line “And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of….” Support a family receiving new life after trauma or bereavement without demanding that joy cancel grief, silencing the harmed person's history, or using a hopeful outcome to excuse earlier wrongdoing. This response follows from the unit's own pattern—David comforts Bathsheba, she bears Solomon, the LORD loves him, and Nathan gives the additional name Jedidiah.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Samuel 12:24–25 — Bathsheba Bears SolomonSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 2 Samuel 12:24-25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Samuel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, repeated verbs, names, syntax, and the base text behind translation and textual discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Sam.xml, 12:24-25
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Samuel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Unit-bounded wording, older-English clarification, textual witnesses, syntax, names, numbers, and major historical or literary notes actually printed for these verses.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Samuel PDF, printed pp. 559–560, translation and all translator notes attached to 12:24-25
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