Word: uriah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sword devoureth one as well as another." Hardened and harsh was King David when he spoke these words to the messenger who told him that Uriah, husband of Bathsheba, had been slain as planned. But from the new Bible is missing the whole chapter that describes the unhappy King's brief interlude of passion with Bathsheba that lush spring when he tarried in Jerusalem although it was "the time when Kings go forth to battle." Without this tale is lost one of the most important psychological links in the evolution of David from the young idealist who befriended Jonathan...
...Supreme Court of the U. S. in its first Prohibition decision ruled that the phrase "two-thirds of both Houses" meant two-thirds of a regular quorum in each House;† the Prohibition Amendment was legally passed under this ruling. But to Senator Uriah Tracy, Gouverneur Morris wrote in 1804: "The idea that two-thirds of the whole number of Senators and of the whole number of Representatives are required by the Constitution to propose an amendment is certainly correct." Under this interpretation, the Amendment would not have passed Congress in 1917; the present Prohibition law is clearly unconstitutional...
...Uriah the Hittite? (Not to be confused with Uriah Keep...
...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...