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2 Samuel


David Bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, from Illustrated Vita Christi by Unknown English artist
The Ark being carried into the Temple, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry by Limbourg Brothers
David's Greatest Triumph, The Ark Enshrined in Jerusalem, David Blesses Israel, from The Crusader Bible (The Morgan Picture Bible) by Unknown French artist [Paris]

2 Samuel 6; 1 Chronicles 13 & 15:1–16:6 David Dances before the Ark

David and Bathsheba, after Lucas Cranach, by Pablo Picasso
Bethsabée (Bathsheba), by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Bathsheba Bathing, by Jean Bourdichon

2 Samuel 11:1–4 Bathsheba Bathing

The Murder of Amnon by his brother Absalom by Bernardo Cavallino
Amnon and Thamar by Jan Steen
David and Absalom (from 'The Bible') by Marc Chagall

2 Samuel 13 Tamar and Amnon

Scene in Famine by Robert Mabon
Woman with Children by Candido Portinari
Keeper of the Golden City by Tamara Madden

2 Samuel 21; 1 Chronicles 20:4–8 Rizpah and her Children

King David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem by Master of the Antwerp Adoration Group
Landscape with David at the Cave of Adullam by Claude Lorrain
'David', from David, virtvtis exercitatissimae probatum Deo spectaculum: ex Dauidis pastoris, militis, ducis, exsulis ac prophetae exemplis by Benito Arias Montanoby Johann Theodor de Bry and Johann Israel de Bry

2 Samuel 23:8–39; 1 Chronicles 11:10–47 David and the Three Warriors

David's Atonement to Avert the Plague, by Aegidius Sadeler I after Maerten de Vos
Plague Befalls the People of Israel, from the San Rocco Altarpiece, by Giorgio Vasari
King David at Prayer, Pieter de Grebber

2 Samuel 24:1–25; 1 Chronicles 21:1–27 David and Gad


Show all exhibitions from the Bible book 1 Samuel
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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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