David and Bathsheba2 Kings 11:1-27
1 hand · 1643
And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when kings…
2 Kings 11:1
What it depicts
2 Kings 11:1-27Opened by a notation lookup, not by an editor. Iconclass 71H7 glosses this subject as “David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11-12)”, and this library reads the Douay-Rheims, where the passage stands at 2 Kings 11:1-27. Iconclass states this subject as 2 Samuel 11-12, which crosses a chapter. The episode is held to 2 Kings 11.
1And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth to war, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they spoiled the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabba: but David remained in Jerusalem.
2In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful.
3And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite.
4And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:
5And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived.
6And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent Urias to David.
7And Urias came to David. And David asked how Joab did, and the people, and how the war was carried on.
8And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet. And Urias went out from the king’s house, and there went out after him a mess of meat from the king.
9But Urias slept before the gate of the king’s house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.
10And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?
11And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I will not do this thing.
12Then David said to Urias: Tarry here today, and tomorrow I will send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.
13And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.
14And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand of Urias,
15Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and die.
16Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were.
17And the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and there fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the Hethite was killed also.
18Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.
19And he charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all the words of the battle to the king,
20If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you approach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are thrown from above off the wall?
21Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, and slew him in Thebes? Why did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite is also slain.
22So the messenger departed, and came and told David all that Joab had commanded him.
23And the messenger said to David: The men prevailed against us, and they came out to us into the field: and we vigorously charged and pursued them even to the gate of the city.
24And the archers shot their arrows at thy servants from off the wall above: and some of the king’s servants are slain, and thy servant Urias the Hethite is also dead.
25And David said to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing discourage thee: for various is the event of war: and sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed by the sword: encourage thy warriors against The city, and exhort them that thou mayest overthrow it.
26And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and she mourned for him.
27And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.
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- Subject
- David and Bathsheba2 Kings 11:1-27joined by Abe Garcia
- Iconclass
- 7142F5(+0)31D17old woman25H21water course71H7131D15(+89)adult woman (+ nude human being)25F35(PEACOCK)ornamental birds: peacock71H71211I63(BATHSHEBA)Bathsheba (not in biblical context)
- Holder's headings
- Female Nudes, Bathsheba
- Wikidata depicts
- woman, female breast, washing, nude, navel, nipple, Bathsheba, fountain, sitting, group of humans
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Rights
- Credit
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- Evidence
- metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 437393 (read 2026-08-27)
- Record
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437393
How this join was made
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY gives this object the Iconclass notation71 42F5(+0) 31D17 25H21 71H71 31D15(+89) 25F35(PEACOCK) 71H712 11I63(BATHSHEBA), and the library's map reads that notation as 2 Kings 11:1-27. An editor has checked the picture against the passage and confirmed it.
Rembrandt's Toilet of Bathsheba. The woman at her bath is the sight that begins the episode, and Iconclass 71H712 names that moment rather than the letter or the death of Uriah.
Also by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
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Within fifty years of 1643
1050
![Artis auriferae quam chemiam vocant, volumen primum [- secundum], Unknown](https://library.wrkhrs.co/artwork/erara-4312.jpg)
Also at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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By this mode of reasoning Rembrandt has a higher place than Raffaelle. But a very little reflection will serve to show us that these particularities cannot be nature: for how can that be the nature of man, in which no two individuals are the same? It plainly appears that as a work is conducted under the influence of general ideas or partial it is principally to be considered as the effect of a good or a bad taste. As beauty therefore does not consist in taking what lies immediately before
0.69PAINTING 95 Rembrandt The great Ecce Homo (etching of 1650) is an analogous case. As is known, the schema of the composition dates back to a Cinquecentist, Lucas van Leyden. A house wall and a terrace before it, seen frontally; people who have taken up their stand side by side in rows on and in front of the terrace—how are we to get a baroque picture out of all that? We learn with Rembrandt that it is not the subject but the treatment which matters. While Lucas van Leyden exhausts
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- David and BathshebaRembrandt's Toilet of Bathsheba. The woman at her bath is the sight that begins the episode, and Iconclass 71H712 names that moment rather than the letter or the death of Uriah.