Sentences with phrase «even in the harem»

Perhaps she observed Shabbat even in the harem of the king, in secret.

Not exact matches

But even more pernicious was the influence of the harem — that breeding - ground of seditions and knavery, as well as the source of the monarch's personal demoralization, in every oriental court through history — which was firmly established by David and much enlarged by Solomon.

An idle, aging king in the heady, evening air of a Jerusalem springtime; the beautiful Bathsheba and her incorruptible husband Uriah; the king's prompt, efficient, confident steps to cover the results of his lustful intoxication; Uriah's integrity as soldier and his unwitting and ultimately fatal frustration of David's self - protective scheme merely by the virtue of his extreme loyalty to his compatriots still in the field; David's unhesitating but premeditated resort to murder; the complicity of Joab, always intensely, blindly loyal to David; and continuing this picture of the king's total moral collapse in steps of progressive deterioration, David's calloused words of reassurance to Joab, «Do not let this matter trouble you...»; and at last the consummation of the whole sorry episode when Bathsheba is added to David's harem and another son added to his progeny.

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, if Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this ancient Near Eastern patriarchal culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future to begin with, and so when she is «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

If Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future at all, and so when she is «gathered» and «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back: sending the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides.

Some have even tried to tie her story in with modern - day, sex - slave trafficking as she was brought before the powerful king as part of his harem.

However, even the more traditional style of harem pant - blowsy and drapey - is rarely seen in Western fashion.