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Interesting, how the story of David and Bethsabee made it into the Arabian Nights:

There was once a King of the Kings, a potent man and a proud, who was devoted to the love of women and one day being in the privacy of his palace, he espied a beautiful woman on the terrace-roof of her house and could not contain himself from falling consumedly in love with her.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54525/54525-h/54525-h.htm#c129


Cf:
2 And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

2 Samuel Chapter 11.
https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b11.htm


And of course, it made it into modern popular culture:



There's something deep in this narrative. I wonder what it is and how I could use it.

I like this version the most

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