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A typical movie is only 2- 2\/12 hours long, however the plot usually evolves over longer periods of time. To get over this issue, most films will employ the classic film making technique called the montage. In a montage, several scenes will take place depicting events over a certain period of time. Usually there is music playing in the background. The training scene in Rocky with \u201cEye of the Tiger\u201d playing in the background is a classic example.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 8 of II Samuel is the biblical version of the montage. After David solidifies his kingdom, and his request to build the Temple is denied, he goes on several quests to expand Israel\u2019s territory and subdue the enemies around him. In chapter 8, he hits nations in the north, south, and west. David expands the borders to the lines that God promised Abraham. All of this happens in 12 short verses. \u201cDavid gained fame (made a name for himself) when he returned from defeating Edom in the Valley of Salt, 18,000 in all.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David\u2019s reputation as a leader and warrior is now known across the Middle East. The Book of Samuel explains that \u201cDavid made a name for himself\u201d may mean that he erected a stone stele as was the custom of contemporary leaders. These stone monuments told of great victories by the monarch. The fact that David may have built one or more of these monuments is testament to the extent of his power. 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II Samuel 8 is mainly devoted to David\u2019s military actions, and describes how he dealt with threats and incursions from the surrounding nations. Our attention is drawn to a statement that appears at the end of v. 6: \u201cThe LORD gave David victory wherever he went.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Gersonides in the section of his commentary entitled \u201cTo\u2019eliyot\u201d (<\/span>lessons<\/span><\/em>) writes that the text offers evidence that this was not only noticed by outsiders, as Abarbanel contends, but by David himself, in light of what he did with the spoils that he took during the course of these wars:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe 37<\/span>th <\/span>lesson<\/span>: the religious goodness of David, that he did not wage war with these various nations to enrich himself by taking their possessions for his personal treasury, but rather to advance the true Torah, and to make subservient those who rebelled against it. This is demonstrated by when David fought with the various kings and defeated them, he never took the spoils for himself but rather for God (see verses 11,12), which clarifies that it wasn\u2019t due to his lust for wealth that he engaged in warfare, but rather because of the shortcomings in the opinions and beliefs (<\/span>of his opponents<\/span><\/em>) \u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet when his son Solomon was gathering material for the construction of the Jerusalem Temple, according to one midrash cited by Rashi, he made a point of <\/span>not<\/span><\/em> utilizing the objects that David had so diligently set aside, because of potential complaints with respect to his father\u2019s immoral behavior when it appeared that he considered the Temple more important than the alleviation of the starvation of his constituents. On the following verse:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When all the work that King Solomon had done in the House of the LORD was completed, Solomon brought in the sacred donations of his father David\u2014the silver, the gold, and the vessels\u2014and deposited them in the treasury of the House of the LORD (I Kings 7:51).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi comments:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash explains that Solomon did not wish to use any of those dedicated materials for the construction of the Temple\u2026 Solomon said that there was a famine in the days of his father for three consecutive years (see II Samuel 21:1,) and he (<\/span>David<\/span><\/em>) should have used these dedicated materials to sustain Israel\u2019s poor.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Consequently, it could be said that God\u2019s refusal to allow David to build the Temple (I Chronicles 17:4) was of a piece with Solomon not wishing to use spoils of war gathered by his father, because of criticism\u00a0 concerning the immorality of war, and the insensitivity of the government\u00a0 to food distribution during times of crisis. 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At the beginning of our chapter, David first defeats the Philistines, and then the Moabites, two-thirds of whom he executes, though they were prisoners of war. Whatever spoils of gold, silver and brass he captured from these and other enemies, David took to Jerusalem, where he dedicated them to God (8:1-13).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our chapter goes on to record more generally that: \u201cThe Lord gave David victory wherever he went\u201d (verse 14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are then told that \u201cDavid reigned over all Israel. And David executed justice and righteousness (mishpat u-tzedaqah<\/em>) among all his people\u201d (verse 15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Deuteronomy Rabbah 5:3) uses this verse to launch into a discussion of the ultimate value of \u201cjustice and righteousness.\u201d This discussion opens with the verse: \u201cTo do what is right and just is more desired to the Lord than sacrifice\u201d (Proverbs 21:3) \u2013 \u201cFor sacrifices were offered only when the Temple was standing, but righteousness and justice are still practiced now when there is no Temple.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In continuing to discuss the superiority of righteous justice over sacrifice, the midrash continues with an imaginative narrative about the days of David. \u201cFrom the time that the prophet Nathan told David that he would not be the one to build the House of God (see the previous chapter), those who wished to curse David would say to him: \u2018It would be good that the Temple already be built.\u2019 To comfort him, God said to David that the righteousness and justice which you do are more beloved to me than the future Temple. For, it is said: \u2018And David executed justice and righteousness (mishpat u-tzedaqah<\/em>) among all his people\u2019\u201d (verse 15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yehudah explained how David executed righteous judgement. He not only acquitted the innocent and condemned the guilty. But, if the one found guilty of a monetary crime did not have the means to pay up what he owed, David himself would make up the loss from his own resources. Rabbi Nehemiah objected strenuously to this interpretation, saying: If so, this would lead Israel to practice dishonesty (the guilty might take advantage of King David\u2019s generosity by pleading poverty)! Rather, David executed righteous judgement by making the one found guilty of theft give back whatever he had stolen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our Midrash concludes with the following general declaration: \u201cIn light of David\u2019s righteous judgement the Holy One, blessed be He, says to Israel: \u2018My children! 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In this chapter, David finally fully establishes himself as a dominant superpower in the Middle East. He conquers nations, stations troops in their territories, and other kings voluntarily begin to pay tribute to David.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As part of the text\u2019s description of David\u2019s rule, we read that Tzadok ben Ahituv and Ahimelekh ben Evyatar were priests, and that \u201cthe children of David were priests\u201d (v. 18). The latter phrase is doubly puzzling, as we just learned that Tzadok and Ahimelekh were priests, and we also know that David\u2019s line was from Judah, not Levi, and so were unfit to serve as priests. More generally, given that, as we learned in the previous chapter, the Temple was never constructed during David\u2019s lifetime, it seems odd that he appointed priests at all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These questions drove the classical commentators to offer a series of alternative interpretations. R. David Kimhi, citing the midrash, explains that they were priests in the sense that they were scholars. This follows Moses\u2019 blessing to the tribe of Levi, in which he describes them as the teachers of law to the Israelites. Similarly, R. Joseph ibn Kaspi explains that they studied Torah intensively, much as David himself had modeled for them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet we might add a third interpretation. For this is not the only instance in which non-Levites are referred to as priests. Immediately prior to the giving of the Torah, the Torah describes the Jewish people as a \u201ckingdom of priests and a holy nation.\u201d In what sense are the Jews priests? The great Spanish commentator Seforno explains that the role of the Jews vis-a-vis the world was to be, in the words of R. Shlomo Riskin, \u201cpriest-teachers.\u201d By observing the laws and living out the values of ethical monotheism, the Jews were positioned to model a Jewish lifestyle for the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So too with the children of David. Beyond studying and teaching Torah in a more technical sense, the verse may be suggesting that they served as spiritual-ethical paragons for the Jewish nation, and, given David\u2019s international stature, well beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Philistines, Moabites, Arameans of Aleppo and Damascus\u2014these, in order, were the surrounding nations that fell before David. Hamath, Aram, Moab, Ammon, Philistines, and Amalek\u2014these were the nations that literally paid tribute to David.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A seemingly offhand reference to the conquest of Moab, however, begs explanation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And he smote Moab, and measured them with the ropes, making them to lie down on the ground. He measured two [lengths] of rope to put to death, and one full rope to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David, and tributaries. (2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why the measurement? Why ropes (c<\/em><\/span>havalim<\/span><\/em>)? Why lying down? Why did two lengths impose a death penalty? And why is all of this happening specifically to the Moabites? We can answer our questions by combining the insights of two exegetes,.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi would have us harken back to 1 Samuel 22:3 ff., wherein David, preparing to flee from Saul, entrusted his family\u2019s safety to the King of Moab, who, by implication, reneged on his promise of protection. (Entrusting his relatives to Moabites may have made sense to David since his own great-grandmother, Ruth, was a Moabite.) Rashi wrote:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Those measured with two ropes were killed. [This vengeance was] because they killed his father, his mother and his brothers as it is said, \"He led them before the king of Moab.\" We do not find that they ever left from there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak observed that forcing them to lie down (rather than be measured standing) was a demonstration of their relative inferiority and a sign of contempt. The ropes, we may assume, were all of a standard length and served as a customary instrument of measurement in those days; hence, a demarcated territory was also called a c<\/em><\/span>hevel<\/span><\/em> (cf. Deut. 3:4, 13, 14). 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8:10 \u201cAnd Toi sent Joram his son to King David to ask after his well-being and to salute him for having done battle with Hadadezer and for striking him down, as Hadadezer was Toi\u2019s adversary. And in Joram\u2019s hand there were vessels of silver and vessels of gold and vessels of bronze.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commentary: Sending the prince as emissary is a token of the importance that the king attaches to the mission. The vessels of precious metals are a peace offering to David or, from another perspective, an advance payment of tribute. Toi, as a king who has been threatened by the Arameans, has good reason to pledge fealty to David, but he surely wants to ward off any possible military thrust of the expansionist Israelites against his own kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Regional politics<\/em>. Who wants to help whom and why (verse 5)? Who sends a peace delegation, and why is the offer rebuffed (verses 9-10)?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Garrisons<\/em>. This is the system for holding on to foreign conquered lands. You\u2019ll find them in Aram and Edom, verses 6 and 14.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Horses<\/em>. What does David do with the impressive cavalry that falls into his hands? He doesn\u2019t establish his own cavalry, but rather \u201cDavid hamstrung all the chariot horses,\u201d making them unfit for battle, \u201cexcept for 100 which he retained\u201d (verse 4). Why? Is he trying to fulfill the Law of the Kingship (Deut. 17), that the king shall not multiply horses to himself? 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