Bathsheba

Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, one of David's own elite soldiers listed among his mighty men. David saw her bathing from his roof, summoned her, and slept with her; she sent word that she was pregnant. David brought Uriah back from the battlefield hoping he would sleep with his wife, but Uriah refused to go home while his comrades were in the field. David then wrote orders placing Uriah in the front of the fiercest fighting, and Uriah was killed carrying the letter that sealed his death. The prophet Nathan confronted David with the parable of the stolen ewe lamb, then declared: "You are the man." Their first child died. Bathsheba then bore Solomon, whom the LORD loved.

Years later, when David was old and a rival claimed the throne, Nathan and Bathsheba worked together to secure Solomon's succession. King Solomon, once crowned, rose when his mother entered, bowed to her, and had a throne set for her at his right hand. Matthew's genealogy refers to her obliquely as "the wife of Uriah" in the lineage of Jesus — naming her not by her own name but by her connection to the man David wronged.