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        David was king over Israel, but he owed a lot of his military success to his top general Joab. They were supposed to be hand and glove, but Joab and David did not always see eye to eye. When David wanted to bring Abner into the fold, Joab took matters into his own hands and killed him. Abner had not only been IshBoshet\u2019s general, but he had also killed Joab\u2019s brother in battle. Most recently, Joab killed Absalom when David told everyone to let him live. This was after Joab had coaxed a reunion between the two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        The fact that Joab did not hesitate to kill Absalom after spending political capital to bring him back shows how black and white Joab\u2019s thinking was. Killing Absalom was an admission that he had made the wrong choice to bring David\u2019s son back into the fold. He did it anyway, because Joab\u2019s main goal was protecting the crown and defeating its enemies. In this line of thinking there is no opportunity for nuance. A threat is a threat and it must be dealt with. Next chapter, Joab will do the same thing with Amasa removing another former general of the enemy that David wanted to appoint to replace Joab.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David\u2019s calculations seem uniform: he refuses to punish those that rebel and instead wants to try to rehabilitate them and bring them back to the fold. David may be thinking politically. Just as he did not try to kill Saul, he also wants to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Joab's outburst in chapter 19 reveals his thinking:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Today you have humiliated all your followers, who this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and daughters, and the lives of your wives and concubine by showing love for those who hate you and hate for those who love you. For you have made clear today that the officers and men mean nothing to you. I am sure that if Absalom were alive today and the rest of us dead, you would have preferred it (verses 6-7).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David\u2019s mercy here is seen as weakness by Joab. In some ways, Joab is like Michal, Saul\u2019s daughter who looked out the window and was disgusted that David would debase himself in front of the people. To each of them respect for the crown trumps everything. Those that disrespect the crown need to be taken care of, and those that respect the crown are to be rewarded. 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        Several times now we\u2019ve seen King David struggling to separate his personal life from his professional duties. It\u2019s a hard balance to strike and thankfully our society is getting better at understanding the necessarily blurred line between the two. But for a King it\u2019s a much harder line and David\u2019s inability to negotiate it well comes to a head in this chapter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        There\u2019s a minefield of family dynamics playing out in this environment entrenched in nepotism. There\u2019s David, his sons Absalom and Amnon (who were half-brothers), and his nephews Joab and Amasa (who were first cousins). Joab was David\u2019s chief of staff. Absalom had previously killed his brother Amnon in revenge for Amnon\u2019s rape of Absalom\u2019s sister (Amnon\u2019s half-sister and David\u2019s daughter). David is contending with the reality of Amnon\u2019s depravity while nevertheless mourning his death, and at the same time assimilating the personal struggle of loving his son Absalom while knowing he killed Amnon. Amid this landscape of heartache is the treachery of Absalom leading a revolt against the Davidic kingdom to wrest control from his father, during which David instructs his military commander Joab to ensure, revolt notwithstanding, that no harm comes to his son Absalom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Alas, David receives news that Absalom, his son and would-be usurper, has been killed. David, the father, is devastated by his personal loss and immerses himself in mourning until Joab reminds him that his divided loyalty is putting his kingdom at risk. Joab, in no uncertain terms, tells David, the King, that this is no time for his personal life to encroach on his professional duties: \u201cGo out and speak to your servants, because I swear if you do not, not one man will remain with you, which will be worse than any other misfortune you\u2019ve experienced (19:8).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David heeds Joab\u2019s advice which may have saved the kingdom. But ultimately David can\u2019t sustain the separation of personal and professional loyalty. By the end of the chapter, perhaps because he suspected that Joab was responsible for Absalom\u2019s death or perhaps because his need to fully mourn his son was unresolved, David replaces his nephew Joab as commanding officer, with Joab\u2019s first cousin Amasa, bringing him back into the familial fold after serving as commander of a rebel army.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":60962,"alt":"","title":"2sam19-we are family","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family.png","width":960,"height":960,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family.png","large-width":960,"large-height":960,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family.png","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":960,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family.png","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":960,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family.png","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":960,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam19-we-are-family-420x420.png","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The Twists And Turns Of A Nepocracy","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"What's a nepocracy? 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        The Absalom cycle in 2 Samuel is one of the most gripping stories of the Tanach. The tale of ambition, of civil war, of father against son still resonates with modern readers. Who can help but sympathize with David as he struggles to hold his throne against his rebellious son, while still instructing his soldiers \u201cdeal gently with my boy Absalom, for my sake?\u201d Who greets every messenger from the battlefield with the question \u201cIs my boy Absalom safe?\u201d And then dramatically wails upon receiving the tragic news \u201cMy son Absalom! O my son Absalom, my son! If only I had died instead of you!\u201d (2 Samuel 19:1). For perhaps the first time in David\u2019s life, he prefers something else to the throne.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David\u2019s deep despair makes his general Joab\u2019s response so much more jarring. He confronts David, tells him that David is embarrassing himself, angrily exclaims \u201cI am sure if Absalom were alive today and the rest of us dead, you would have preferred it,\u201d and demands David arise and stop mourning, lest he insult the remainder of his army. And shockingly, David mutely obeys, without a word of recorded protest (2 Samuel 19:7-9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Joab\u2019s brash conduct is strikingly against traditional Jewish law and custom, not to mention basic decency. The Shulkhan Aruch, for instance, instructs against even initiating a conversation with a mourner until the mourner begins or in someway indicates their willingness to talk (Yoreh De\u2019ah 376:1). For most of us, it is impossible to read Joab\u2019s words without flinching. But David says nothing. Even years later, when on his death bed he instructs Solomon to solidify his reign by having Joab put to death, the reason he gives for the execution is Joab\u2019s killing of \u201ctwo commanders of Israel\u2019s forces, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, he killed them, shedding blood in peacetime\u201d (1 Kings 2:5). Absalom is not mentioned. Why?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        It is extremely hard to be a mourner. It is also hard, in its own way, to be a comforter. It is hard knowing how to comfort the bereaved. There is a reason the Shulchan Aruch includes laws regulating what a comforter should and should not do. Knowing how to approach death, and how to approach someone who has lost a loved one, is challenging. It is tempting to say that Joab is surely in the wrong here. At the very least, his tone and word choice are unacceptable for comforting a mourner. But perhaps Joab was also, in some unintentional way, in the right. Perhaps David needed to be reminded of the world outside of his self. For the rest of the chapter, David goes right back to ruling, and his armies recover their morale.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        None of us should speak to a mourner like Joab did to David. Rather, it is worth taking the time to think about what the mourner needs to hear, what would be most healing for them in their specific circumstance. Joab may have accidentally provided that to David. It would be good it we could intentionally provide it for those who need it most.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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        The author presents his deepest insight into the pathologies of dynastic succession in his narrative of Absalom\u2019s rebellion, where the ultimate price of maintaining sovereignty was paid. The dynastic structure explored in the Absalom narrative dislodges what might be the cornerstone of the civilized order -- keeping at bay, repressing, and controlling a latent oedipal tension.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Undone in this rebellion was the immense civilizing effort entrenched in both the firm taboo against having sex with one\u2019s father\u2019s wives and the psychologically intolerable guilt stemming from the possible murder of the father. In the end, the oedipal drama was enacted only halfway. Having chosen political ambition over filial bonds, Absalom had sex publicly with his father\u2019s concubines. But the young usurper did not murder his father. Instead, he was defeated by his father, who possessed more skilled and seasoned military forces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        When the family is turned into the exclusive vehicle for securing the continuity of government upon the ruler\u2019s death, the stakes become intolerably high. The winner-take-all nature of hereditary monarchy raises sibling rivalry among the potential successors to a fratricidal pitch. The delicate and arduous work of the civilizing project, especially the discipline imposed on intimate family relations, disintegrates under the pressure of power politics. Patriarchal families are afflicted with horizontal rivalries among brothers and vertical tensions between fathers and sons. These tensions, which are mitigated by deeply rooted social and cultural norms, burst into flames when the family is used as the principal vehicle for the transfer of such immense power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        The narratives of Absalom\u2019s killing of Amnon and his rebellion against David manifest the breakdown of the delicate horizontal and vertical family structures under the strain of dynastic politics. Since the family is a centerpiece of political order within a traditional dynastic monarchy, its internal breakdown will also have a ripple effect, destabilizing the body politic as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Excerpts from The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes, Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 139-40.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":56668,"alt":"","title":"halbertal-book cover.jpg","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg.png","width":2000,"height":2000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-1024x1024.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg.png","2048x2048-width":2000,"2048x2048-height":2000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-1200x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-420x420.png","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Excerpts from:\u201cThe Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel\u201d ","tile_main_caption":"Family Relations And Power Politics","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"When latent oedipal tensions come to the fore","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":56668,"alt":"","title":"halbertal-book cover.jpg","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg.png","width":2000,"height":2000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-1024x1024.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg.png","2048x2048-width":2000,"2048x2048-height":2000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-1200x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg-420x420.png","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"II Samuel","chapter":"19","chapter_main_number":"282","date":"20260928","wall_id":"282"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"373","name":"Literature","old_id":"773"},{"term_id":"386","name":"Psychology","old_id":"786"},{"term_id":"423","name":"Politics","old_id":"823"},{"term_id":"914","name":"Absalom","old_id":"1314"}]},{"order":9,"id":"60967","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Does David Show Too Much Mercy To His Opponents? 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        Time and again, those around David view his political opponents as nothing more than enemies \u2013 and time and again, David takes a different view.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Saul was killed while still king, Abner had pledged loyalty to David, and Ish-bosheth had done nothing; in each case, David takes an objectively principled stand, calling each death unjust and a loss. We should not be surprised, then, that he would be displeased with his own son\u2019s death, though others saw the son purely as his father\u2019s enemy (e.g. 18:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Absalom, however, was a rebel, a threat to the stable rule of God\u2019s chosen monarch; even David knew that he had to be fought. He even planned to go to battle himself, until his soldiers convinced him not to \u2013 perhaps out of concern that he wouldn\u2019t be able to put his feelings aside when the time came. And indeed, as the soldiers head out, David asks them to be gentle with Absalom \u201cfor my sake\u201d (v.5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Joab, though, has less conflicted ideas about how to deal with Absalom, and is quick to seize the opportunity to kill him \u2013 despite knowing David will not take the news well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Which of them is right?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        We admire David\u2019s emotional depth and commend his ability to grieve Absalom; we would be horrified if he could callously welcome his own child\u2019s death. At the same time, however, losing himself in personal grief over an outright rebel is different from protesting the unjust killing of political rivals (or potential rivals). While the latter raised standards of justice and integrity in the nation, the former sours David\u2019s troops\u2019 victory, leaving them confused and ashamed as he retreats into cries of \u201cMy son! My son!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        And Joab has had enough. Complicated emotions or not, he believes David\u2019s subjects need their king, not the father of their defeated enemy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        \u201cYou have humiliated all your followers, who this day saved your life\u2026by showing love for those who hate you and hate for those who love you\u2026 if Absalom were alive today and the rest of us dead, you would have preferred it.\u201d (v. 6-7) David\u2019s love for a self-declared enemy has overshadowed the love of his allies, and Joab warns that David will lose every last insulted ally if he doesn\u2019t show some appreciation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        The last time Joab killed a man under David\u2019s protection (Abner), the king condemned him for it. This time, he\u2019s killed David\u2019s own son \u2013 yet David accepts Joab\u2019s biting criticism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David consistently taught his people that the necessity of fighting doesn\u2019t always mean we erase the love or respect we hold for others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        And Joab taught David that neither can our love for others overshadow zeal for a fight that must be fought, and that ultimately a leader must balance leading with serving those who serve him \u2013 even when it hurts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":60968,"alt":"","title":"2sam19-heart 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        King David\u2019s life was never meant to be easy, as we have learned through the book of Samuel II. His role was to set the Kingdom of Israel up to receive his son Solomon as a king who would usher in a period of calm and unity. Unfortunately for David, his trials and tribulations included his son Absalom turning against him, and ultimately being killed in the battle of the Woods of Ephraim.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David withdraws in mourning. Perhaps this time his pain and suffering are too much. He calls out the most heart-wrenching verses of the bible, \u201cMy son Absalom! O my son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! O Absalom, my son, my son!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Joab, King David\u2019s nephew and general, confronts him and berates him for his extravagant mourning. He calls on him to remember his duty, to remember his role, and to remember his people, to do the right thing and to begin leading again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        In a world of populism, we often see leaders rising up to answer the call of the masses, while neglecting the very many things that they actually want and need. They speak in slogans and soundbites. They neglect the very people they are offering to serve; they neglect their duty to the people who elevated them to their positions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David rightly grieves, but when his grief clouds his ability to lead, Joab decides to remind him of his God-given duty to serve the people who crowned him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        As Israel heads to the polls yet again, as Britain manages its own election and the Brexit negotiations, and as America once again begins the election cycle, we need to remember that our leaders need to be reminded of their duty to their citizens rather than their slogans and populist ideals. 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        With the end of the uprising against King David, led by his beloved son Absalom, you might think that David would exult in his triumph. After all, he had been in mortal peril, risking the loss of his own life as well as his crown. At the end of the battle, against David\u2019s explicit instruction, the commander Joab had sought out Absalom for a particularly slow, bloody, and gruesome death. Two runners rushed to inform the king of his victory. The first was cautious enough to report the military triumph but to omit any mention of Absalom\u2019s death. Not to be diverted, David\u2019s question to the second runner was also focused on his rebellious boy. The staccato measure of the three Hebrew words indicates his heightened nerves and anxiety: \u201c<\/span>ha-shalom le-na\u2019ar le-Avshalom<\/span><\/em>?<\/em> Is It well with the youth, Absalom?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Of course, we \u2013 the readers \u2013 know that there is no peace (shalom<\/em>), no wholeness (sh\u2019leimut<\/em>) for Absalom. We also know that, far from being a youth with all the innocence and promise that being a youth conveys, Absalom is an adult man, a warrior, and a traitor. But in the eyes of his father, Absalom is eternally young, innocent, full of potential.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        When he learns of his son\u2019s tragic end, David cries out the saddest three words of the Bible: \u201cAbsalom, my son! My son!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        The pathos of David\u2019s broken heart reflects one aspect of the man: he has always been a person of strong feelings. At this moment of political and military triumph, he does not think or act like a cool, calculating monarch, instead he emotes like a bereaved father.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        And in crying out, he risks losing the very victory his forces gained. After all, they risked (and many lost) their lives for the sake of his crown, his power, his dynasty. For David to focus on his grief would be to demean the sacrifices and struggles of his most faithful followers. So he fakes it. He dresses up like a king, sits himself in public, and offers greetings and congratulations to his troops and people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        But his heart grieves, and his timeless words echo the broken hearts of parents across the ages: those whose children have died before them, those whose children have been trapped by their bad choices or by circumstances beyond their control. David knows, and expresses, the truth that for most parents, our lives are so entwined in the lives of our children that we become vulnerable to their foibles, complicit with their plots and plans, and a piece of us sickens and dies if they do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David finds a way to go on, but he is not the same David he was before his son\u2019s brutal death. Our souls are wrapped up in the souls of those we love.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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        Joab <\/span>put himself on the line<\/span><\/a> to save David from his son, and himself. Now he has to save the kingdom from David\u2019s grief.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        This time, he doesn\u2019t try the soft persuasion that may have<\/span> worked in other cases<\/span><\/a> (but<\/span> not always<\/span><\/a>), but rather speaks directly and forcefully. \u201cToday you have humiliated all your followers, who this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and daughters, and the lives of your wives and concubines.\u201d Joab killed Absalom for the good of the kingship and the nation it represents, not the king personally. He now opens his admonishment to David by mentioning the many people who follow and depend on him, as if to say: \u201csnap out of it.\u00a0 Ordinary people can grieve the death of even a rebellious son, but you have a public role that must come before personal feelings.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        In this message, Joab seems to have come full circle from<\/span> the first time<\/span><\/a> he killed a potential threat to David: Abner. Then, any politically or nationally reasonable justification (e.g., Abner was a potential fifth column) were secondary to Joab\u2019s personal motive: revenge for Abner killing Joab\u2019s brother. Now, Joab risks the king\u2019s ire to make sure he does what is best for the good of the nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Now, it is David who seems to have mixed personal\/political motives. David does as Joab says, but does not speak directly to Joab for the rest of the chapter. When David offers the generalship to Amasa, Absalom\u2019s former general (and kinsman of David, Absalom, and the sons of Zeruiah), \u201cin place of Joab,\u201d it is on one level a shrewd political move. The men Joab has been commanding are already loyal to David. To solidify his hold over the others, David needs to bring someone from their side into a leadership position.\u00a0 But David\u2019s offer may also be a way to sideline Joab over Absalom\u2019s death. It\u2019s true that a king should be able to expect that his general will obey orders, which Joab did not. But if this were David\u2019s true motive for deposing Joab we can assume he would not seek to replace Joab, who violated one order, with Amasa, who joined an attempted coup.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Furthermore, When Joab\u2019s surviving brother Abishai suggests that David have Shimei ben Gera killed (Shimei cursed David when it looked like Absalom was ascendant, but now comes groveling back), David shoots back: \u201cWhat has this to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should cross me today? Should a single Israelite be put to death today? Don\u2019t I know that today I am again king over Israel?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David\u2019s reference to \u201csons of Zeruiah,\u201d plural, tells us that Joab is<\/span> lurking in the background<\/span><\/a> of David\u2019s interaction with Abishai. He berates Abishai for seeking the death of David\u2019s rival, Shimei, as a proxy for berating Joab for killing David\u2019s rival, Absalom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Joab may have saved David\u2019s kingdom by killing Absalom, but David will not forgive him for it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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        19:1 \u201cAnd the king was shaken. And he went up to the upper room over the gate and he wept, and thus he said as he went, \u2018My son, Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! Would that I have died in your stead! Absalom, my son, my son!\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Commentary: Much of the way experience transforms David in the course of his story can be seen through his changing responses to the deaths of those close to him. When Jonathan and Saul died, he intoned an eloquent elegy. When Abner was murdered, he declaimed a much briefer elegy, coupled with a speech dissociating himself from the killing. When his infant son by Bathsheba died, he spoke somber words about his own mortality and the irreversibility of death. Now, the eloquent David is reduced to a sheer stammer of grief, repeating over and over the two Hebrew words, <\/span>beni `Avshalom<\/span><\/em>, \u201cmy son, Absalom.\u201d Although the narrator continues to refer to David only as \u201cthe king,\u201d in the shifting conflict between his public and private roles the latter here takes over entirely: Absalom is not the usurper who drove him from the throne but only \u201cmy son,\u201d and David is the anguished father who would rather have died, that his son might have lived.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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        With the battle over and Absalom dead, David was restored to his throne uncontested, although he did pause along the way for a bout of mourning over Absalom for which he was (properly?) rebuked by Joab. This particular incident inspired, inter alia, a late 18<\/span>th<\/span> century opera, \u201cDavid and Absalom,\u201d by Bertoni, a novel, \u201cAbsalom Absalom,\u201d by William Faulkner, and a madrigal, \u201cWhen David Heard,\u201d by the 16<\/span>th<\/span> century English composer Thomas Weelkes, still in vogue and performed at the recent North American Jewish Choral Festival by Kol Ram.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        On his way back to Jerusalem, David got to replay some of the incidents that accompanied his earlier departure from that city. Shimei ben Gera apologized for hurling imprecations at him, and David excused him\u2014to the consternation of the Zeruiah brothers. Mephi-Boshet, Jonathan\u2019s sole surviving son, revealed to him that Ziba, his servant, had lied about his disloyalty to David, forcing David to reconsider his earlier edict awarding Mephi-Boshet\u2019s property to Ziba (16:4). However, instead of entirely revoking it, David equivocated, ruling that \u201cyou and Ziba shall split the property\u201d (30).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Both these actions by David drew rabbinic attention due to their failure to conform to the norms of equity. Shimei, as argued by Avishay (22), was a traitor, and a despicable one at that for cursing David, and clearly warranted execution. While Ziba was guilty of only lying to the king and even assisted his flight rather than hinder it, he certainly did not deserve to be rewarded by retaining his ill-gotten gains. Rabbinic traditions attempt to resolve both issues.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        According to a Midrash, Shimei was left alive because he turned out to be an ancestor of Mordechai, thereby allowing divine retribution to take its course when his descendant saw to the execution of Haman whose own ancestor, Agag, King of Amalek, was egregiously spared by King Saul\u2014to whom Shimei was related. And as for the inequitable division of property between Ziba and Mephi-Boshet, a Midrash (cited by Radak) states that it caused a heavenly voice (<\/span>bat kol<\/span><\/i>) to announce the eventual division of David\u2019s kingdom amongst Rehoboam, his grandson, and Jeroboam ben Nebat, who usurped it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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        \u201cBiblical Sources on Slavery\u201d<\/a><\/u> by Lewis Eron: An overview of slavery in Tanakh.<\/p>\r\n

        \u201cShould Our Moral Values Trump Our Respect For Our Leaders?\u201d<\/a><\/u> by Josh Pernick: Explore Jewish sources about dealing with the powerful.<\/p>\r\n

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        1. My son, Absalom!<\/em>\u00a0David\u2019s cry of anguish that reverberates again and again in verses 1 and 5, and to today, echoes the pain and grief of loss, where there is no comfort to be found. Even a rebellious son is a son.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
        2. Now in reverse<\/em>. The way back to Jerusalem for David and his entourage returns through the same human stations that they passed through on their way out of Jerusalem. Both good and bad.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
        3. By the way<\/em> - you\u2019re fired! In verse 14, David fires Joab, and replaces him with the man who had just finished waging a cruel war against him. Amasa the son of Ithra.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
        4. A painful compromise<\/em>. Ten chapters ago, David had done a significant kindness to Mephiboshet: he returned to him all of the property of the house of Saul, and made Ziba his servant. Then, three chapters ago, he believed Ziba, who told him that Mephiboshet had betrayed the king, and ordered the transfer of all the property to Ziba. When David hears Mephiboshet in this chapter give a different version, he doesn\u2019t take the trouble to get to the bottom of the story and find out who is telling the truth, but just announces: \u201cI decree that you and Ziba shall divide the property\u201d (verse 30). Industrial quiet instead of justice. He is judged harshly for this by the sages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
        5. Like thieves in the night<\/em>. Absalom\u2019s rebellion began when he \u201cstole\u201d away the hearts of the people (vayeganev<\/em> - 15:6), and ends with the people stealing back into the city (vayitganev<\/em> - 19:4). The people who won the war don\u2019t celebrate their victory when faced with David\u2019s mourning for his son.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"II Samuel 19","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"II Samuel","chapter":"19","chapter_main_number":"282","date":"20260928","wall_id":"282"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/60467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}