When David caught sight of Bathsheba and had her brought to his room, he entered on a disastrous course of action. |
Then she begins to speak, and it is a river... I recognize my Bathsheba, the one that sometimes only my mouth on hers, in bed, would silence. |
After turning Uriah the Hittite into canon fodder in order to have his way with the man's wife, Bathsheba, David thinks that he has gotten away with murder. |
Beruna and Bathsheba received their mistress when she returned to her chamber. |
And here, indeed, here my Bathsheba is silent. |
When Bathsheba heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for him as was the custom. |