Why did david name his son solomon when god said his name was to be jedidiah? In these verses we read that david's first son with bathsheba dies as a punishment for his sin of … Caribbean010414-516 - nkjvresults: 2 solomon's birth 2 samuel 12:25 and he sent word by the hand of nathan the prophet: So he called his name jedidiah, because of the lord. Why did god punish david's son instead of david himself for his sin?
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Why didn't god punish david instead of taking the life of his child, which had done nothing to deserve death?
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