Bathsheba - Infinite Women

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The following is excerpted from Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company.

Bathsheba (flourished 1040-1015 B.C.), wife of King David, and mother of Solomon. She was the wife of Unah, the Hittite, a soldier in King David’s army. David, infatuated with Bathsheba’s beauty, placed Uriah in the van of the army, where he was soon killed by the enemy. The king then maried Bathsheba, who bore him four sons and of these Solomon was chosen to succeed David as King. The rabbins describe Bathsheba as a woman of vast information and a highly cultivated mind, to whose education Solomon owed much of his wisdom and reputation, and even a great part of the practical philosophy embodied in his Proverbs.

The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.

BATHSHEBA (1040-1015 B. C)
Daughter of Eliam, wife of King David, and mother of Solomon.
Four children were born to them, of these Solomon was chosen to succeed David as King. The Rabbins describe Bathsheba as a woman of vast information and a highly cultivated mind. To her education, Solomon owed much of his wisdom and reputation, and even a great part of the practical philosophy embodied in his proverbs. The Bible
tells us: ‘The woman was very” beautiful to look upon.” The period of her death is not recorded but the last time she is mentioned is when she “sat on the right hand” of her son “on his throne” about 1012 B. C.