Was Bathsheba the queen when Solomon reigned?


1 Kings 2:

Catholics like to use the example of Solomon putting a chair beside him for his mother when she made a request (though we don't really know that this was necessarily customary for him to do). They use this example to claim that the Davidic kingdom reflects what goes on in heaven with that Kingdom. Therefore, they say, since Solomon had his mother sitting beside him, the mother of Christ's flesh and blood should also sit beside Him in heaven.

First of all the existence of a mother as queen meant that she was a CO-RULER. In Judah there were a few instances when the queen mother may have been the co-ruler. There was Maachah the mother of Asa who was likely co-ruling with her son who became king at 16 years of age. He later removed her as queen mother because she worshiped the queen of heaven (her chapels were called "groves"). In another case, there was Hepzibah, widow of Hezekiah, who likely co-ruled with her son Manasseh who became king at 12 years of age. For all the abominations he did, it is unlikely that he did these without her influence. There was actually a sole ruler who was a queen after her son died. Athaliah made herself the sole heir of the throne by slaying her grandsons (but one). When her only surviving grandson took the throne at 7 years of age, she was executed, and his co-ruler was Jehoiadah the high priest until his death. As we can see in the "Davidic realm" having a QUEEN MOTHER who ruled with the king was not a good thing at all.

Which brings us to our next point. Bathsheba may have been queen when David was alive, but she did not have this position while Solomon ruled. Solomon took the throne when he was well within age and did not require his mother to be the queen. In fact, even before he became king, he was already married. When Solomon was 28, he had married his first wife, an Ammonite princess TWO YEARS before David's death, and Rehoboam, their son and next heir to the throne after Solomon, was born about a year before David's death. Solomon's wife, or main wife, was the queen BUT NOT HIS MOTHER. The mother fills that position when there is no other queen. BATHSHEBA THEREFORE WAS NEVER A QUEEN DURING SOLOMON'S REIGN, and the REAL queen is never even mentioned in any such influential capacity, unless of course you want to discuss how his wives influenced him in the ways of PAGANS. Now THERE'S a better example of Solomon's queen!

Then there is the little matter of the Catholics using this example to show how the "queen" can request of the king whatever she wants. As we can see in this story, although Solomon agreed to any of her PERSONAL requests, HE DID NOT HONOR A REQUEST THROUGH HER FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

This then is a VERY POOR EXAMPLE, and a distorted one at that, to try to form AN EXTREMELY FAR REACHING "DOCTRINE" WITH GREAT CONSEQUENCES.

In addition to that, David never mentions a "Davidic kingdom" with a "queen". That kind of kingdom Judah later developed because they were in idolatry against the I AM. Taking the example of idolaters is par for the course for the Vatican.