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When Uriah’s wife heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
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Verse 26. For him. We may apply to her tears those words of Lucan:
Lachrymas non sponte cadentes
Effudit, gemitusque expressit pectore læto.
“None affected more sorrow for the death of Germanicus, than those who rejoiced the most at that event.” Tacit. An. ii.—The mourning for the dead usually lasted seven days; (Sirach 22:13) and after that period, David seems to have married Bethsabee. Abulen. q. 21.
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