Question: Why did Bathsheba's child with David die shortly after birth?
About the article "Bathsheba", section "Biblical narrative".

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The meaning of the Hebrew form of the name "Bathsheba" is "daughter of the oath", "bat" meaning daughter.
The second part of the name appears in as "shua" (signifying "wealth") (compare ).
Bathsheba was the daughter of Eliam (, who is called Ammiel in ).
Her father is identified by some scholars with Eliam mentioned in as the son of Ahithophel, who is described as the Gilonite.
(See King David's Warriors.
)Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she gave birth to Solomon, who succeeded David as king.
(United Kingdom of Israel and Judah).
The story of David's seduction of Bathsheba, told in , is omitted in Chronicles.
The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.
He immediately desired her and later made her pregnant.
In an effort to conceal his sin, David summoned Uriah from the army (with whom he was on campaign) in the hope that Uriah would re-consummate his marriage and think that the child was his.
Uriah was unwilling to violate the ancient kingdom rule applying to warriors in active service.
Rather than go home to his own bed, he preferred to remain with the palace troops.
After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy (where he was more likely to die).
David had Uriah himself carry the message that ordered his death.
After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.
David's action was displeasing to the Lord, who accordingly sent Nathan the prophet to reprove the king.
After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor (II Samuel 12:1-6), and exciting the king's anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David's action with regard to Bathsheba.
The king at once confessed his sin and expressed sincere repentance.
Bathsheba's child by David was struck with a severe illness and died a few days after birth, which the king accepted as his punishment.
Nathan also noted that David's house would be cursed with turmoil because of this murder.
This came to pass years later when one of David's much-loved sons, Absalom, led an insurrection that plunged the kingdom into civil war.
Moreover, to manifest his claim to be the new king, Absalom had sexual intercourse in public with ten of his father's concubines, which could be considered a direct, tenfold divine retribution for David's taking the woman of another man.
(II Samuel 16:20–23) In David's old age, Bathsheba secured the succession to the throne of her son Solomon, instead of David's eldest surviving son Adonijah.
Some commentators have written that Bathsheba may have written at least part of Proverbs 31 as suggested by the postulated connections between King Lemuel aka King Solomon.
The story of David's adultery sets up the context for the penitential Psalm 51 (50), also known as "Miserere" ("Have mercy on me, O God").
Huo Guang's wife, Lady Xian, would not be denied her wish of making her daughter an empress, however.
In 71 BC, Empress Xu was pregnant when Lady Xian came up with a plot.
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Her doctors were initially arrested to investigate whether they cared for the empress properly.
Lady Xian, alarmed, informed Huo Guang what had actually happened, and Huo, not having the heart to turn in his wife, instead signed Chunyu's release.
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)Empress Xu was buried with full imperial honors near, but not with, her husband, whose third wife Empress Wang was later buried with him.
Her son Prince Shi would later become crown prince and later Emperor Yuan after surviving attempts on his life by Empress Xu's successor, Empress Huo.
Eventually, the Huo clan would be destroyed in 66 BC. 
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Reverend Hines arrived in Oregon in 1840 aboard the ship "Lausanne".
He, his wife Lydia, and his sister-in-law all journeyed to the Pacific Northwest via Cape Horn at the tip of South America.
After arrival, he went with Lee to the Umpqua River valley to scout a site for a new mission location.
The following year Gustavus Hines was involved with the Champoeg Meetings as a person selected to a committee designed to draft laws that were an attempt at creating a government in the region that was under no formal government at the time.
At the February 1841 meetings at David Leslie’s home, Hines served as secretary for the legislative body gathered on French Prairie.
These meetings did not create a government in 1841, but did elect Doctor Ira L. Babcock as a judge to deal with the estate of Ewing Young.
Two years later continued meetings led the formation of the Provisional Government of Oregon.
Hines' younger brother Harvey would journey to Oregon in 1853.
In 1842, Lucy Anna Lee was born to Jason Lee's second wife who died shortly after child birth.
The Reverend Hines and his wife took in the child and raised her after losing their own daughter, their only child.
After the closing of the Methodist Mission, Hines returned to New York in 1845.