Word: bathsheba
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...pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord; calamities confront his house. The music, from a gloating minor, rises steadily with blood-burning cymbals and a strump of drums; David dances, David prances, licks his red-hot lips and glances at Bathsheba. Absalom revolts, is killed. David rides in triumph through Jerusalem to Honegger's march for wind instruments...
...David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said: "Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite...
...afternoon David got up from his siesta and took a walk on the roof of the royal palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. She was a very beautiful woman to behold, and David sent to make inquiries about her. Someone said: "That must be Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite...
...Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite...
...thinks are Vermeers, and those in the Byers collection (Pittsburgh), the Evans and Gardiner collections (Boston), the Walters collection (Baltimore). The chief Metropolitan Rembrandts are the group of 13 bequeathed by Benjamin Altman in 1913, including the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, Pilate Washing His Hands, Toilet of Bathsheba, one of the many self-portraits of the artist, and portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's housekeeper, mistress and second wife, and of Titus, his son by his first wife, Saskia van Uylenburg. There are also the Man with a Beard and the Portrait of a Man, of the Marquand...