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People don\u2019t recognize him. They don\u2019t remember him nor realize who he is. His own father didn\u2019t even see fit to present David to Samuel along with his other seven sons when the prophet came looking for a new king; Jesse apparently saw nothing remarkable in his youngest son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most blatant, almost comical, example of this non-recognition comes at the end of today\u2019s chapter. After David has heroically slain the mighty Goliath, King Saul asks three times to know whose son David is. This seems strangely forgetful of Saul. For David had already spent many hours giving harp recitals to the king to calm the \u201cevil spirit\u201d that had lately come over Saul. One might think that they had discussed David\u2019s family background in these sessions. Moreover, when Saul asked for recommendations for a personal musician, one of his servants answered,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have observed a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skilled in music; he is a brave fellow and a warrior, sensible in speech, and handsome in appearance, and the LORD is with him\u201d \u00a0(16:18).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So David was first introduced to Saul as <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the son of Jesse<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Not only that, but the king then sent a personal message to Jesse asking for his son to come into the royal service. So Saul\u2019s urgent, insistent requests at the end of our chapter to know David\u2019s parentage are bizarre. We know that Saul knows David and his family very well already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God sheds light on the non-recognition of David. When Samuel met Jesse\u2019s oldest son Eliav and mistakenly thought that he must be the intended king, God says, \u201cFor not as man sees [does the LORD see]; man sees only what is visible, but the LORD sees into the heart.\u201d The future king is distinguished not by his outer appearance, but by the inner qualities of heart and soul \u2013 his faith, courage and trust in God. In a degenerate time when politics is corrupt and religion has become a political tool, such inner qualities are imperceptible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This helps explains why Saul of all people, who has lost his inner integrity doesn\u2019t seem to know who David is. Rashi explains Saul\u2019s questioning as a frantic effort to locate David on the political map; is he of the right lineage to be king? Is he therefore a threat to me? A stranger to his own inner world and intoxicated by power, Saul is blind to the greatness in David which is precisely what makes David his nemesis and successor. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":58215,"id":58215,"title":"isam17-unrecognizable","filename":"isam17-unrecognizable.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam17-unrecognizable.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-unrecognizable-david\/isam17-unrecognizable\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam17-unrecognizable","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":58214,"date":"2019-06-24 20:25:41","modified":"2019-06-24 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