And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
Bath-sheba ... bare a son, and he called his name Solomon - i:e. peaceable, "a man of rest" (see the notes at 1 Chronicles 22:9). But Nathan gave him the name of Jedidiah х Yªdiydªyaah (H3041) i:e., friend of, or beloved by, Yahweh. David also signifies beloved. 'Jedidiah, therefore, was a second David, and the two in type were but one in fact and future fulfillment' (Barrett's 'Minutiae of Prophecy')], by command of God, or perhaps only as an expression of God's love. This love, and the noble gifts with which he was endowed, considering the criminality of the marriage from which he sprang, is a remarkable instance of divine goodness and grace.