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When Jonathan died \u2013 Jonathan, whom David loved above all women \u2013 David wrote him an elegy.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Amnon died \u2013 Amnon, David’s son, who “loved” his sister, Tamar \u2013 David mourned him every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Absalom died \u2013 Absalom, David’s next son, who loved ten of David’s women \u2013 David cried and cried for him.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when Uriah dies at the hand and command of David \u2013 Uriah, commander in David’s army, Uriah, my love, Uriah, my husband \u2013 I keen over him. After all, I have learned and will learn, from the best, most miserable elegy maker of all. My second husband. David.<\/span><\/p>\n

Uriah, <\/span>ishi,<\/span><\/i> my man. Uriah <\/span>Ha-chiti, <\/span><\/i>the Hittite.<\/span>
\n<\/span>We weren’t expected to marry \u2013 you, a foreign soldier, come to fight on behalf of our young, vibrant king in his early days; me, daughter of another of the king’s military elite.<\/span>
\n<\/span>But we did.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Oh we did.<\/span>
\n<\/span>You Hebraicized your name when you joined the army, when you met me, when you chose your place in Israel \u2013 you became the Light of God \u2013 but still, my people would never let you forget, never let us forget, that you were not born of us. Uriah. <\/span>
\n<\/span>The Hittite. From far away. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Not a Jew. The non-Jew. The Jew-by-choice who remains the outsider.<\/span>
\n<\/span>You were gone at the front, but I still went to purify myself for you. Just in case. Like clockwork. You can never be too ready.<\/span>
\n<\/span>I thought of you on that roof.<\/span>
\n<\/span>And so.<\/span>
\n<\/span>I can only ask: why did you not come to me when David called you back to Jerusalem?<\/span>
\n<\/span>Why did you not send word?<\/span>
\n<\/span>Why did you keep your armor on?<\/span>
\n<\/span>Why did you not come home?<\/span>
\n<\/span>You would have had a son. A prince. And no one would have been the wiser.<\/p>\n

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