House of David: Who Was David's Mother?

2nd Wife, Mistress, or Something Else? (Article 3)

The show "House of David" caused quite the stir with some very vague descriptions and some scandalous presumptions about David's mother. Was David's mother a mistress of Jesse? Was she a second wife to Jesse, making her the stepmother to David's other brothers? What is this business of David's mother "seeing visions" from God? Who was David's mother?

This is one of those places where "House of David" is incredibly fun but moves from speculation to fiction. With that said, the goal of the show isn't biblical scholarship but to portray a possible historically accurate situation. Based on that, I think they did a phenomenal job!

Biblical Silence on David's Mother

The Bible is for the most part totally silent about David's mother. So it seems the writers of "House of David" picked up on some possible lines of trajectory to help point to what may have been the situation that left David in the fields, and why there could have been animosity between him and his brothers.

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