{"id":58933,"date":"2019-07-07T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=58933"},"modified":"2023-01-29T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T15:39:11","slug":"davids-darker-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/davids-darker-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"David\u2019s Darker Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[834,568,522],"acf":{"old_id":"58933","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":56118,"related_cahpter":"257","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"David follows his precursor Judah in admitting the justice of a woman\u2019s actions against him\u00a0\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chapter 25 exposes some of David\u2019s darker demons. Until Abigail dissuades him against the plan, David is prepared to murder Nabal for his insolence, declaring, \u201cMay God do thus and more to the enemies of David if, by the light of morning, I leave a single male of his\u201d (v. 22). Ultimately, though, David possesses the self-awareness to overcome his own limitations. Swayed by Abigail\u2019s graciousness, he confesses, \u201cFor as sure as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives\u2014who has kept me from harming you\u2014had you not come quickly to meet me, not a single male of Nabal\u2019s line would have been left by daybreak\u201d (v. 34).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David is not the first in his line to demonstrate such self-awareness. In the book of Genesis, David\u2019s forbear Judah, having sired an illicit child with his daughter-in-law Tamar, ultimately confesses publicly, \u201cShe is more right than me\u201d (Gen. 38:26). Indeed, according to an explanation cited by the rabbinic text Tosefta (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berakhot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 4:16), Judah merited the kingship on the basis of this episode \u201cbecause he confessed to the incident of Tamar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, David\u2019s self-awareness in the earlier parts of the chapter notwithstanding, the chapter\u2019s conclusion seems to suggest that David falls short in his treatment of the women in his life. His (impulsive?) decision to marry Abigail does not necessarily reflect positively upon him. Her response, \u201cYour handmaid is ready to be your maidservant, to wash the feet of my lord\u2019s servants\u201d (v. 41), suggests that their marriage will be particularly unequal, and that she may be destined, on some level, to reenact her troubled marriage to Nabal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most clearly, as a number of commentators note, by the end of the chapter, David is married to two women he desires &#8211; Abigail and Ahinoam &#8211; but apparently not Michal, Saul\u2019s daughter. This is puzzling, to say the least, as David had previously taken Michal\u2019s hand in marriage. However we resolve this difficulty, the point seems clear: David remains unsatisfied, and seeks to keep adding to his number of wives. His attitude is troubling, and foreshadows some of the difficulties to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>David and Abigail<\/em>, Guido Reni, c. 1615 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":58934,"id":58934,"title":"isam25-David and Abigail","filename":"isam25-David-and-Abigail.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-David-and-Abigail.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/davids-darker-demons\/isam25-david-and-abigail\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam25-david-and-abigail","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":58933,"date":"2019-07-07 08:41:21","modified":"2019-07-07 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