Chapter 36: The Ethical Tragedy of David's Family
David rose to fame in an engagement with the Philistine giant Goliath, a seemingly invincible opponent who seemed to be the first big stepping stone for the teenage hero's fame, such as Apollo's slaying of the python Pitong and the sword defeat of Achilles in Troy's battle against Achilles.
However, although the young David stood out as a brave warrior, he thought that the king played and sang as a harp boy who accompanied King Saul, and it can be said that he was a rare young man who was both civil and military, and it is no wonder that Saul's children were greatly overwhelmed at once.
Prince Jonathan loved David so much that he often told others, "Jonathan loved David as his own life." At the same time, Princess Mijia is also very in love with David.
However, Saul's fanatical pursuit of the stars made Saul secretly suspicious, and among the Israelites, there were often people who sang a ballad that displeased King Saul: Saul killed thousands, and David killed thousands.
Saul tried to kill David with a spear, but he avoided the latter several times, and even marriage became a trap for Saul to kill people with a sword, and David had to kill a hundred Philistines if he wanted to marry the princess Michal.
However, David overfulfilled and married Michal. As the king's son-in-law, David's great power was full of dangers, but fortunately, Prince Jonathan mediated, but this is also the tragedy of Jonathan. When he defended his friend, he was almost stabbed in the heart by his father, and Saul rebuked him: "Don't I know that you are pleased with the shame that the son of Jesse (David) brought shame upon himself, so that your mother was exposed and dishonored, from a stubborn and rebellious woman?"
In fact, if translated into foul language, it can show King Saul's unhappy attitude: "Fuck you! When I don't know, you have a crush on that little white face!"
However, Jonathan's true love for David was not unaware that David might prevent him from succeeding to Saul's throne, but he was convinced and said, "You will be king over Israel, and I will be your ruler."
Who can not be moved by the devotion of love that transcends political utilitarianism, whether it is friendship or love? Later, when David wrote the "Song of the Bow" in mourning the fallen Jonathan, he also said, "My brother Jonathan! I grieve for you." I am very pleased with you, and the love you have sent me is very wonderful, more than the love of a woman. โ
Saul's hatred of David had reached an intolerable level, and David escaped with the help of his wife, Michal, and began a long exile. He did not want to commit treason, but asked another country to give him a place to live, he went to recover the enemy-occupied city of Keila, but was attacked by Saul from behind, Saul vowed to search him out of thousands of households, but David twice gave up the opportunity to kill Saul easily......
After so many risks and twists and turns, David's bravery, wit, tolerance, and patience became more and more prominent, and Saul's murderous acts of indiscriminate killing of innocents in the process of pursuing David increasingly alienated the people, and many people turned to David.
Saul was defeated, and David became King David of Israel.
During David's reign, he conquered the Philistines, Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites as slaves to the Israelites, and the powerful Damascus, Zoba, and even Hamath were all under David's control or submission to him. Israel became a powerful nation on a par with Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.
He recaptured the city of Jerusalem, his childhood birthplace, from his enemies, built it as the royal capital of the Israelites, transported the Ark of the Covenant containing the Jewish Bible, and designed an ornate palace for it. King David declared Judaism the state religion and the LORD God the only God of Israel.
The LORD God is the name given to Yahweh by the Israelites, and this is the name that Yahweh told Moses when he made his covenant with Moses.
After achieving fame, King David, who thought he was mighty, of course, began to enjoy himself, but before he did so, he was still waiting for the death of a man.
Although he was the king of Israel, above him was Samuel, the last great judge.
When Samuel died, David took over the power of the judges, and he didn't want to let the judges out and cause trouble, as his predecessor King Saul did.
Then, when David was arrogant and lascivious, he sent his generals everywhere to seek it, but he himself got up from his bed lazily when the sun was setting. While he was wandering boredly on the flat roof of the palace, he suddenly saw a woman bathing in a courtyard somewhere among the people.
Of all the voyeur pleasures, it is probably the voyeur beauty bathing that is the most exciting. David investigated her identity and learned that she was the wife of a soldier, and her husband went out to fight for the country, but David did not give up, and summoned her to the palace without guilt.
In order to cover up his defilement, King David summoned Uriah, the husband of Bathpah, and after a period of rambling, he asked him to go back to his wife. Unexpectedly, Uriah was an upright soldier, and when his comrades were fighting bloodily, he refused to enjoy the joy of fish and water alone.
David was helpless and sent someone to get him drunk, but Uriah still didn't give in. Eventually, David came up with a poisonous plan: to get Uriah to bring a letter to his superiors, and the letter contained a will to kill Uriah. This trick was so powerful that Uriah lost his life because of it.
Of course, David had many wives, and this was only one of his wives, and several of the others were taken from others.
The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, David, as a father, did not set an example, in fact, it can be said that the gods in this world have not set an example.
One of David's sons, Amnon, was despised by the other women, but he liked his half-sister Tamar, and he raped her. They were all his own children, and although David was angry, he could only forget about it.
However, this incident was remembered by Absalom, the half-brother of Tamar.
Of David's sons, Absalom was the most handsome, and he was the most beloved of David. Then it was this most favored boy who gathered his forces and led his army to the city of Jerusalem, and frightened his father, King David, into flight.
King David fled in a hurry, and Absalom took possession of the palace, killed his half-brother who had raped his own sister, and in broad daylight, in front of all the people,** David's concubines, and the place was chosen on the platform of the palace, the platform where David strolled and saw Bathpah.
David had evil thoughts on this platform and seized the wives of his soldiers, and his concubines were also on this platform and were insulted by his own son.
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"Yahweh, this is your chosen people, this is their king, what an interesting race. These people, I don't know if you want heaven or not, anyway, I think they are all suitable to settle in my hell. โ
Standing high in the sky, Satan couldn't help but sneer and whisper, believing that Yahweh could hear what he was saying.
"How are you doing, Satan?"
Yahweh appeared next to Satan, his voice not sad or joyful, as if he did not take that scene of the world to heart at all.
"I'll make a bet with you, that among the sons of David, we'll choose one of them and see who will be victorious. โ
Yawei chuckled softly, "You don't have any chance of winning, but if you want to bet, I'll follow you." But if you lose, don't declare your power to the Israelites. โ
Satan laughs and agrees, but also makes a request: "No matter whether they win or lose, Yahweh cannot take a hand to ruin their harvest." โ
Yahweh's brow furrowed slightly, and he began to deduce Satan's intentions, and a holy light ran through his mind, as if everything that could be known was present above this light. It's just that there will always be some darkness on the way to this light.
"Yes, I'll do it to you. โ
Despite the darkness, he could not change the path of the light and could not affect the path of Yahweh, so he agreed to Satan's request.
"Since you two made a bet, you don't mind if I am a witness, do you?"
A familiar voice appeared, and the god Lord Malduk stood in mid-air, beside Yahweh and Satan.
Without waiting for Yahweh to speak to Satan, Marduk suddenly smiled to the side and said, "Your Excellency the Lord of the Stars is also listening, so you might as well testify together." โ
In the underworld of Egypt, Adros said to the righteous lord Mart on the side: "It seems that I have to go this time, and I originally planned to stay with you for a while longer." โ
Mart gave him a blank look, Adros didn't toss her a lot during this time, she regretted a little that it wasn't her own deity here, otherwise with Adros's strength, she would not dare to be strong against her.
Adros stepped forward and came to the side of these masters, and said with a smile, "How did Your Excellency know that I was listening?"
Marduk said: "I know that His Excellency Adros, like me, likes to watch plays, and you can't miss this great human drama." โ
Naturally, this remark could not deceive Adros, but since Malduk didn't say it, he didn't want to ask too much. However, he had a guess in his heart, could it be that the strength of this god lord had been able to see the subtleties and discover the fluctuations of his divine power from the heavens and the earth?
"It's best if you two gentlemen want to come to witness, and I'm worried, what if I win the bet and someone lifts the table?"
Hearing Satan's mocking words, Yahweh naturally didn't care, he just looked at the two lords who suddenly appeared, and said with a smile: "Since the two lords have come to the land of Canaan, then please come to my Garden of Eden as guests, as for the affairs of the world, it is good to pay attention to them at leisure." โ
The so-called bet is a harmless little thing for Yawei.
Marduk nodded and looked at Adros, "Lord of the Stars, then go together?"
Adros could feel that Marduk had asked him to come and witness whether it was false or not, and to find him if something was true, but he didn't know what it was, and he had to go to the Garden of Eden in Yahweh to talk about it.
The three masters left together, leaving only Satan present, he looked in the direction of the three gods' departure, snorted coldly, and disappeared.