David sees Bathsheba bathing* Bathsheba mourns her husband Nathan reproaches David* Desolation of Tamar* Absalom Causeth Amnon to be slain Absalom* David mourns his son Amnon* David quits Jerusalem* Absalom hanging on the oak tree The Death of Absalom* David sees the messenger arrive* Bad News...
Covering the wall of a cardinal's audience room, Francesco Salviati's fresco painting of the biblical story of Bathsheba, who is spied upon by King David while taking a bath (Rome, Palazzo Ricci-Sacchetti, 1553-1554), raises questions about its propriety and meaning. It is argued that eroti...
old woman opposite her is the procuress or messenger sent by King David, whose wife Bathsheba would become.8The Dresden painting was long considered to be a simple genre scene involving a love letter, and a similar misunderstanding also occurred with a painting ofBathsheba with King David’s ...
The problem with kings (and bosses and fathers) is that you cannot tell them what to do -- directly. So Joab comes up with a "judicial parable," something like Nathan had used to help David understand his sin with Bathsheba (12:1-4). ...