Since 2 Samuel 11: 3 notes that Eliam is the father of Bathsheba, some scholars suggest that the Ahitophel of 2 Samuel 15 may in fact be Bathsheba's grandfather.

The title may be ironic: the five main characters – Bathsheba, Troy, Boldwood, Oak, and Fanny Robin – are all passionate beings who find the " vale of life " neither quiet nor cool.

Some commentators have written that Bathsheba may have written at least part of Proverbs 31 as suggested by the postulated connections between King Lemuel aka King Solomon.

While David was in this state his fourth son Adonijah, heir apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom, acted to have himself declared king, But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon's mother, along with the prophet Nathan convinced David to proclaim Solomon king.

Burdened with guilt over the pain she has caused him, Bathsheba reluctantly consents to marry him in six years, long enough to have Troy declared dead.

After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy.

After repeatedly refusing to see his wife Bathsheba, David sent Uriah to his commanding officer Joab with a letter that ordered to put Uriah in the front of the battle and have the soldiers move away from him so that he would be killed.

Under public censure for his refusal to sign the Stamp Act protest as Massachusetts representative to the 1765 Stamp Act Congress, Ruggles might have arranged the marriage on January 15, 1766, for his daughter to Joshua Spooner, but no documentation has yet turned up to explain why Bathsheba Ruggles married a man she very soon came to hate.

As this was also the name of a son of Ahithophel, one of David's heroes ( II Samuel 23: 34 ), it has been conjectured that Bathsheba was a granddaughter of Ahithophel and that the latter's desertion of David at the time of Absalom's rebellion was in revenge for David's conduct toward Bathsheba.

In the meantime, Phillips's next play, Herod: a Tragedy, had been produced by Beerbohm Tree on the 31st of October 1900, and was published as a book in 1901 ; Ulysses, also produced by Beerbohm Tree, was published in 1902 ; The Sin of David, a drama on the story of David and Bathsheba, translated into the times and terms of Cromwellian England, was published in 1904 ; and Nero, produced by Beerbohm Tree, was published in 1906.

David commits adultery with Bathsheba and plots the death of her husband ; for this God punishes him, saying that the sword shall never depart from his house.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

He afterwards made a second attempt to gain the throne, by trying to marry David's last woman, Abishag from Shunem, but Solomon denied authorization for such an engagement, even though Bathsheba now pleaded on Adonijah's behalf.

Later, she played Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 ), and the title role, Petulia Danner, in Richard Lester's Petulia ( 1968 ) with George C. Scott.

15: 12 ), a city of Judah, and thus Bathsheba was from David's own tribe and the granddaughter of one of David's closest advisors ( 2 Sam. 15: 12 ).

He was the husband of Bathsheba, and was murdered by order of David by having the soldiers retreat from him in battle.

According to the biblical Second Book of Samuel, King David was tempted upon seeing Bathsheba bathe in her courtyard from the roof of his palace.

Unlike the husband of Bathsheba, however, the duc d ' Agénois recovered from his injuries, and returned to the court in glory.

The story was frequently painted from about 1470, not least because of the possibilities it offered for a prominent nude female in a history painting-paintings of Bathsheba bathing offered an alternative subject with the same advantages, and both also offered an opportunity to include classical sculpture and architecture in their settings.

He then ordered her husband, Uriah, to come home from a war front so that he might sleep with his wife, thus making it appear as if Uriah had in fact conceived with Bathsheba.

Smith's first wife, Bathsheba W. Smith served as general president of the LDS Relief Society from 1901 to 1910.

* In Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ) by Thomas Hardy, Bathsheba is persuaded to perform bibliomancy.

There were four rulers of the United Monarchy: Saul ben Kish ( from the tribe of Benjamin ); Ishbaal ( name sometimes written as Ishboseth ), a son of Saul ; David, son-in-law of Saul through his marriage to Michal and from the tribe of Judah ; and Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba.

The daughter of a prominent Colonial American lawyer, justice and military officer, Bathsheba Ruggles had an arranged marriage to a wealthy farmer, Joshua Spooner, prior to her father's banishment from Massachusetts in 1774, due to his British Loyalist stance.

Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner was the daughter of Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, a lawyer who had served as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1762 to 1764, and founder and most eminent citizen of the town of Hardwick, Massachusetts.

Ross was walking north from Washington's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey, on his way home to Linebrook, Massachusetts, when he fell ill and was nursed to health by Bathsheba Spooner before heading on to his home.

Bathsheba Spooner distributed paper money from her husband's lock box and articles of his clothing to the three men, who then took one of the Spooner horses to Worcester, 14 miles distant

Basevi is a surname that comes from Bathsheba.

The cases ranged from famous assassinations ( of Abraham Lincoln, Leon Trotsky, and Julius Caesar ) and the lives ( and often deaths ) of the likes of Cesare Borgia and Blackbeard to more obscure cases, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who killed her husband Joshua Spooner in 1778 and became the first woman tried and executed in America.

Scipio, Bathsheba, and his daughter Antoinette were sent to Camp Determination, where he was separated from his family and sent to Barracks 27 in the men's section of the camp.

After Bathsheba gives birth to the son fathered by David's adultery, the prophet Nathan extracts a confession and repentance from David when he confronts the king about his sin brought about by lust.

When Bathsheba " Sheba " Hart is hired as an art teacher, Barbara immediately senses that they might become close friends.

David commits adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

Bathsheba, David's favorite wife, and Nathan the prophet go to David and procure his agreement that Solomon, Bathsheba's son, should sit on the throne.

# The father of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, and afterwards of David ( 1 Chr.

Four people were hanged for the crime: two British soldiers, a young Continental soldier, and Spooner's wife, Bathsheba, who was charged with instigating the murder.

The household was centred on the Ferrar family: Nicholas's mother, his brother John Ferrar ( with his wife Bathsheba and their children ), and his sister Susanna ( and her husband John Collett and their children ).

When he learns that Boldwood is again courting Bathsheba, he returns to Weatherbury on Christmas Eve to claim his wife.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba (, Bath Shebha, " daughter of the oath ") (, " ابنة القسم ") was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.

Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she gave birth to Solomon, who succeeded David as king.

The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.

After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.

Chronicles, which draws a veil over David's faults, omits all reference to the way in which Bathsheba became David's wife, and gives only the names of her children: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon.

* Nathan, son of David and his wife Bathsheba (; )

In this period the Hittites are mentioned as the ethnic label of two military commanders under king David ( around 1000 BC ), Ahimelech and Uriah ; the latter is murdered by David for the sake of his wife Bathsheba.

It was while working in this position he met his second wife, Julina Lambson, who was a niece of Bathsheba W. Smith, a wife of church apostle George A. Smith.

In addition to his first wife Bathsheba, Smith married Lucy Smith, Nancy Clement, Sarah Ann Libby, Hannah Maria Libby, Zilpha Stark and Susan E. West.

The wife of Uriah the Hittite mentioned as the mother of Solomon is Bathsheba.

1: 5 mentions Ruth and Rahab while in 1: 6 Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite, is mentioned indirectly.

The son of a wealthy Boston merchant, Spooner was a well-to-do Brookfield farmer, later described as an abusive man for whom his wife, Bathsheba developed " an utter aversion.

But he became sympathetic to a woman prisoner named Bathsheba ( Scipio / Xerxes ' wife ), and this sympathy awakened feelings of remorse and guilt.