Question: Who was renamed Jedidiah by Nathan?
Answer: Solomon. (II Samuel 12:24-25)
Comments: Solomon, the second son of David and Bathsheba, was given two names at his birth. In addition to the name he would make famous, Solomon (meaning "peaceful") is conferred the name "Jedidiah" by the Lord through the mediation of the prophet Nathan. (II Samuel 12:25-25) The name is of Hebrew origin and means "beloved of the Lord". Keith Bodner describes the name as "an obvious variant on the name David". ("Nathan: Prophet, Politician and Novelist?" Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2001) A number of scholars have suggested that Jedidiah took the throne name Solomon when he succeeded his father as king of Israel.
Both of the king's names are predictive of the character of his reign.
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her; and she gave birth to a son, and he named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved him and sent word through Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah for the LORD'S sake. (II Samuel 12:24-25)
"Solomon" obviously became the name by which the child was primarily known as the name Jedidiah appears in only this verse of the Bible.
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