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(1) The Israelites, led on by the advice of Nathan the Prophet, demand the death of the wrongdoer Bathsheba, wife of their King David, to atone God’s wrath and drive* famine from heir land. David, grieved and disillusioned, / with God at the death of Bathsheba’s ill-conceived child,

at birth, prepares to fight for her life, but she dissuade! | him from taking arms against his own people. Tranquil in the faee of impending death, Bathsheba asks David

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