Best Bathsheba Poems

King David and Bathsheba…

David was a great king,
who sinned and took a great fall.
As lust grabbed his heart,
When Bathsheba he saw!

In his heart... he sinned as 
lust was conceived.
A plan of murderous lot
was soon achieved!

This sin led to another! 
King David planned….
To have Bathsheba's husband
...

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There was a great king, 
whom did sin and fall.
David.  When from his balcony, 
Bathsheba he saw.

In his heart... he sinned as 
lust was conceived.
A plan of muder in his heart 
was soon received.

This sin led to another 
and had soon willed.
To have Bathsheba's...

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Bathing with Bathsheba

By Mark D. Stucky
As you bathed bare below the high palace
were you intentionally seductive?
The citadel was in plain view,
and so apparently were you.

Or were you simply innocent,
and the king abused his power?
Was it a me-too moment
those three millennia ago?

Nonetheless, you became complicit
in David’s...

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There was a great king, 
whom did sin and fall.
David.  When from his balcony, 
Bathsheba he saw.

In his heart... he sinned as 
lust was conceived.
A plan of muder in his heart 
was soon received.

This sin led to another 
and had soon willed.
To have Bathsheba's...

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1 Samuel 16, and 2 Samuel 11

I wish that I had never shared my psalms,
Regardless whose insomnia was raging.
I wish that my ambition hadn’t brought me from the hills
To shamelessly perform before the king.
For if I’d had the patience to have waited;
If I had kept...

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I
Don't work for food that spoil; anoint with oil

II
John 6:27 compares food Jesus offers, versus natural food that spoil. The second part of the above monoku is based in psalm 51. King David sinned against God, he says, when he seduced Uriah's wife, when he...

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