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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Bath-shua (David's wife living at the time of United Monarchy)

Daughter of Shua. Chronicles uses the phrase for two different women, and here it names the Canaanite wife of Judah, the mother of Er, Onan and Shelah.

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Daughter of Shua. Chronicles uses the phrase for two different women, and here it names the Canaanite wife of Judah, the mother of Er, Onan and Shelah.

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Bath-shua, meaning “daughter of Shua,” is used of two different women in Chronicles. It names the Canaanite wife of Judah, mother of Er, Onan, and Shelah, elsewhere called simply “the daughter of Shua” (1 Chronicles 2:3; compare Genesis 38:2). It is also used as a variant of Bathsheba, wife of David and mother of Solomon (1 Chronicles 3:5).

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Where it appears
  • 1 Chronicles 2:3
  • 1 Chronicles 3:5

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