And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For him. We may apply to her tears those words of Lucan:
--Lachrymas non spontè cadentes Effudit, gemitusque express it pectore læto. "None affected more sorrow for the death of Germanicus, than those who rejoiced the most at that event. "(Tacitus, An. ii.)
The mourning for the dead usually lasted seven days; (Ecclesiasticus xxii. 13.) and after that period, David seems to have married Bethsabee. (Abulensis, q. 21.)
