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DAVID & BATHSHEBA
(An imagined telling by their best known child, Solomon.)
"One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful..." - 2 Samuel 11 verse 2.
"...you saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you.." - Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"
What man like David would forget
(And come to possibly regret)
About the moment he first saw
Bathsheba, washing in the raw?
She was beautiful, he could see,
Her bright eyes sparked appealingly.
She was like an Aphrodite,
Child bearing hips and breasts almighty.
When he saw her step from the pool,
The blood came rushing to his tool.
A healthy mound of pubic hair
Silently called him, “Get in there!”
He had seen her in all her glory;
Thus began their love-lust story
Of adultery, pregnancy,
Husband killed off deviously,
First baby’s death, the next baby
Come to make up (Solomon – ME!)
"One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful..." - 2 Samuel 11 verse 2.
"...you saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you.." - Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"
What man like David would forget
(And come to possibly regret)
About the moment he first saw
Bathsheba, washing in the raw?
She was beautiful, he could see,
Her bright eyes sparked appealingly.
She was like an Aphrodite,
Child bearing hips and breasts almighty.
When he saw her step from the pool,
The blood came rushing to his tool.
A healthy mound of pubic hair
Silently called him, “Get in there!”
He had seen her in all her glory;
Thus began their love-lust story
Of adultery, pregnancy,
Husband killed off deviously,
First baby’s death, the next baby
Come to make up (Solomon – ME!)
Published 29th Apr 2015
| Edited 2nd May 2015
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29th Apr 2015 11:58pm
And of course she had no idea that some guy might perv on her when he was taking a bath up on a roof top.
The more they act like innocent does, the more the conniving little foxes they are.
Good write, love those old sexy Bible stories spoken in a fresh voice.
The more they act like innocent does, the more the conniving little foxes they are.
Good write, love those old sexy Bible stories spoken in a fresh voice.
1st May 2015 11:55pm
love the story Solomon... :)
it appears the 'healthy mound of pubic hair' on a woman denoted her fertility back in those times as it still does in countries like Korea...or is that a christian construct?
it appears the 'healthy mound of pubic hair' on a woman denoted her fertility back in those times as it still does in countries like Korea...or is that a christian construct?
Not heard of that. I was emphasising the probable sexual attractiveness of Bathsheba that moment and David's arousal. I doubt David was interested in her fertility at the time, rather her beauty and desirability. He sounds the classic man whose need for satisfaction under probably unprecedented temptation blocked out any consideration about her marriage and the reproductive consequences of sex. He was king and his power was probably going to his head too.
28th Feb 2018 8:12pm
28th Feb 2018 9:33pm
If David had exercised wisdom when confronted with temptation, Solomon would not have been born and Uriah would have lived to come home to his wife.
