Bible Person
Meaning: the people of God · Male · 2 cross references
Eliam is the father of Bathsheba and appears through his family connection to one of the most consequential royal episodes in David's life. He belongs to the household background behind the Bathsheba story. First appears in 2 Sam 11:3.1
AI summary: Eliam matters because the cross references place his name behind Bathsheba, thereby grounding a major turning point in David's reign within an actual family line. Though Eliam himself is not active in the narrative, his household identity reminds readers that royal sin always falls on real families and relationships. Taken together, the material presents Eliam as the paternal source of Bathsheba's family identity within one of Scripture's most morally weighty royal stories.1
Central Figure
Eliam
Meaning: the people of God
The father of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah (2 Sam.
The father of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah (2 Sam. 11:3). In 1 Chr. 3:5 his name is Ammiel. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.