2 Samuel 12:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon— As David was now in peace with God, and foresaw, in the spirit of prophesy, that his son would be a pacific prince, he called his name Solomon, or peaceable; and as this son was conceived in innocence, in the happy season of God's reconcilement to his parents, and to their establishment in true religion, by sincere repentance and humiliation before him, it pleased God to accept him in a singular manner, which is signified to us by that remarkable expression, and the Lord loved him: and to manifest his favour to him for the consolation of David, God conveyed his benediction to the son by the same hand which had before conveyed his chastisements to the father. He sent Nathan to David, to bestow upon his son, in his name, the most blessed of all earthly, the most blessed but one of all heavenly appellations; Jedidiah, or the beloved of the Lord. Bath-sheba some time after had another son, called Nathan; and it is in him that the two lines of our Saviour's genealogy unite themselves; who, on Joseph's side, descended from Solomon, and on Mary's from Nathan. See Matthew 1:6-7. Luke 3:31. Berruyer is of opinion, that Solomon was born in the fourth year after the death of the infant mentioned above.