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16:1 \u201cAnd when David had crossed over a little beyond the summit, look, Ziba, Mephibosheth\u2019s lad, was there to meet him, with a yoke of saddled donkeys and on them two hundred loaves of bread and a hundred raisin cakes and a hundred of summer fruit and a jug of wine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Commentary: The summit in question is of course the top of the Mount of Olives, where David has just encountered Hushai and sent him off to Jerusalem as an undercover agent. Polzin acutely observes that the two low points of David\u2019s abasement — his humiliation by Shimei and the sexual possession of his concubines by his son — both take place on an elevation: near the summit and on the palace roof. The Hebrew term for summit used here is <\/span>ro\u2019sh<\/span><\/i>, which is the ordinary word for \u201chead,\u201d and as Polzin goes on to note, \u201chead\u201d is an organizing image of the entire episode: David goes up the mountainside with his head uncovered in a sign of mourning, as do the people with him. Hushai puts dirt on his head as a related expression of mourning. Both Hushai and Ziba are encountered on or near the head of the mountain. Abishai is prepared to cut off Shimei\u2019s head.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And, as in other languages, head also designates political leader — an ironic verbal background to this moment when the head of all Israel has been displaced. Finally, Absalom\u2019s usurpation will come to a violent end when his head — the narrator does not say hair — is caught in the branches of a tree.<\/span><\/p>\n

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