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Bathsheba

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Bathsheba
Old Testament the wife of Uriah, who committed adultery with David and later married him and became the mother of his son Solomon (II Samuel 11--12)
Bathsheba
pressured by David to commit adultery during husband’s absence. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:4]
See : Adultery
Bathsheba
king David killed to gain her. [O.T.: II Samuel 11]
See : Beauty, Feminine
Bathsheba
Uriah’s wife, seduced by King David. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:4]
See : Seduction
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The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and, at all events, representing the Scriptural story of David and Bathsheba, and Nathan the Prophet, in colours still unfaded, but which made the fair woman of the scene almost as grimly picturesque as the woe-denouncing seer.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
, Titus Dates; Bathsheba, 710, the Duchess of Portsmouth; Barzillai, 817, the Duke of Ormond; Zadoc, 864, Archbishop Bancroft.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
 
 
 
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