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