{"id":59749,"date":"2019-07-18T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=59749"},"modified":"2023-02-12T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:54:56","slug":"the-dream-of-a-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-dream-of-a-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Of A United Kingdom\u00a0"},"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":[834,894,594],"acf":{"old_id":"59749","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34245,"related_cahpter":"266","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But David\u2019s project is full of fault lines","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michal is traveling to David, and the dream of a united kingdom seems, for one moment, within reach. Saul\u2019s daughter, and Saul\u2019s general, are on their way to join David\u2019s court in Hebron, where they intend to bring all of Israel over to his side. Ishboshet\u2019s court in Mahanaim (\u2018two camps\u2019 in Hebrew, named after Jacob\u2019s decision to divide his wives and children into camps before his confrontation with Esau,) seems destined to dissolve and sink into oblivion, along with the division between competing kings and camps. The united House of Israel, like Michal\u2019s union with David, appear to be on their way to be restored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this optimistic moment is doomed to pass and crumble. And if we step back and look at it in its entirety, the seeds of its destruction are there for us to see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michal is traveling to David, but her travels don\u2019t merely restore. David is using Michal to establish his House \u201cover Israel and Judah from Dan to Beer-sheba\u201d. But he can\u2019t build his House without destroying others. Michal is traveling, and there is a man in tears behind her. And he reminds us: the cost of unity is the destruction of Paltiel\u2019s home, and Saul\u2019s house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This destruction scars and creates latent divisions. And one day, when David\u2019s son Absalom will rebel against him, these divisions will gape open and undermine David\u2019s reign. On that day, many Israelites will join the rebellion, and force David to escape to Mahanaim, fearing, like Ishboshet, a man who\u2019ll muster in Hebron. David\u2019s concubines will be taken by his rival, much as David took Michal to cement his own reign. And as David will run for his life from Jerusalem, Paltiel\u2019s tragedy will come back to haunt him: a man will walk and curse him where Paltiel walked and wept. \u201cThe LORD is paying you back for all your crimes against the family of Saul, whose throne you seized,\u201d the man will tell him. (2 Samuel 16:8) And David will go on running with these words upon his heels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absalom will fail, but David will face other rebellions. And within two generations, the unity he seeks will be undone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michal is traveling to David, and Paltiel is following in tears. The dissolution of their union foreshadows the brittleness of David\u2019s project. 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