Word: bathsheba
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...anything, then, it’s that David was no monochrome saint. In a matter of pages, David raids the townships of his own people, kills the inhabitants to avoid culpability, then writes a beautiful, passionate elegy to Saul’s family. Later, he impregnates a woman named Bathsheba, then tries to disown the child by calling the woman’s husband from the battlefield and getting the two to “lie together.” When the husband refuses, David sends him to the battlefront, “that he may be smitten...
Nathan? Bennett, a devout Roman Catholic, knew that Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew deeply immersed in the Bible, did not need to be reminded that Nathan was the prophet sent by God to upbraid King David for inappropriate behavior with Bathsheba. "I thought [Lieberman] was the closest thing in the Senate to an Old Testament prophet," says Bennett...
...case that this matter of prurient press intrusion - and of private lives having public consequences - dates back not just to, say, Donna Rice, Gary Hart and the Monkey Business, but to Helen and Paris and the Trojan War? Did King David's behavior with Bathsheba tell us something we needed to know about the character issue? Would you have voted for King David? He did, after all, behave like a louse...