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15:32 \u201cAnd David had come to the summit, where one would bow down to God, and, look, coming toward him was Hushai the Archite, his tunic torn and earth on his head.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Commentary: This crucial moment in the story is an especially deft manifestation of the system of double causation that Gerhard von Rad and others after him have attributed to the David narrative: everything in the story is determined by its human actors, according to the stringent dictates of political realism; yet, simultaneously, everything is determined by God, according to a divine plan in history. David, informed that his own shrewd political advisor Ahitophel is part of Absalom\u2019s conspiracy, urgently and desperately invokes God, \u201cThwart, pray, the counsel of Ahitophel, O Lord.\u201d Then he reaches a holy site, an altar on the crest of the Mount of Olives (\u201cwhere one would bow down to God\u201d), and here he sees Hushai, his loyalty betokened by the trappings of mourning he has assumed, coming toward him. Theologically, Hushai is the immediate answer to David\u2019s prayer. Politically, David seizes upon Hushai as the perfect instrument to thwart Ahitophel\u2019s counsel, so from a certain point of view David is really answering his own prayer through his human initiative. Yet the encounter with Hushai at a place of worship leaves the lingering intimation that Hushai has been sent by God to David.<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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