{"id":60670,"date":"2019-08-06T12:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60670"},"modified":"2023-03-01T07:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:26:41","slug":"beware-of-ziba-bearing-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/beware-of-ziba-bearing-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Of Ziba Bearing Gifts"},"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":[583,834],"acf":{"old_id":"60670","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"279","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"And Shimei bearing curses\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David\u2019s hasty departure from Jerusalem in the previous chapter meant that he and his household had fled on foot and without the provisions necessary to sustain them, surely not the best way to avoid capture by Absalom\u2019s rebel forces. To his aid, came Ziba, servant to Saul and major domo to Mephi-Boshet, sole surviving son of Jonathan, whom we first met in chapter 4 and again in chapter 9. The chickens of foreshadowing (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/272\/post\/60208\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">see our comments there<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) are coming home to roost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ziba brought along donkeys for transportation, food and drink for the wayfarers, and spun a tale of conspiracy against David featuring his own master, Mephi-Boshet. If Ziba were to be believed, that son of Jonathan had set a new record for ingratitude: ignoring all that David had done for him on account of his relationship with his father, Mephi-Boshet had used the turmoil surrounding Absalom\u2019s rebellion to pursue the restoration of his ancestral rule. David responded by decreeing that all Mephi-Boshet\u2019s property now belonged to Ziba. When we reach the denouement of the Absalom episode, we will witness David doing a \u201cflip flop.\u201d Caught between the rock of the solemnity with which royal decrees deserve to be met and the hard place of the discovery that Ziba had lied about Mephi-Boshet\u2019s true feelings towards him, David declared that \u201che and Ziba should divide the property\u201d (19:30).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As though this were not enough of a blow to David\u2019s pride, no sooner had Ziba gone then Shimei son of Gera, another relative of Saul, seized the opportunity to heap curses upon him, jeering \u201cKeep going, you bloody wicked man\u201d (7). Here, David showed remarkable restraint, accepting these taunts as part of his divinely ordained suffering, and forbidding Abishai son of Zeruiah from striking Shimei. 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