Matthew 1:6. David the king. Emphatic as the culminating name of an ascending series. Even here pride is humbled; the wife of a heathen is mentioned, David's partner in the deepest guilt of his life, but also in his most profound penitence (Psalms 51).

The wife of Uriah. ‘Her that had been the wife' seems to gloss over the guilt.

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Old Testament