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you

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wait

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here Lord Commander well the king is not

in his tent not in his tent no sir it

must be somewhere have you searched the

camp yes sir I brought the aid you

assigned to him I think the man knows

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something that is the man sir

you were assigned to attend the king yes

sir where did he go sir I I I cannot

tell you as your commander I order you

to tell me the king pledged me to

silence where is he he went with the

scouting party scouting

party what scouting party every night so

we send out some more patrols to test

the walls of the city and tonight

tonight the Waterway under the north

wall a patrol of 20 men under Captain

UAH you let him go I could not stop him

sir we had finished the dispatches the

king stood in the mouth of the tent as

the patrol went by he looked after them

and suddenly he took up a sword and

followed them take a 100 of your best

men and go after them

sir TOS men

king king of all Israel out there in the

darkness exposing himself to the

enemy crawling on his belly like a

common Soldier

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I'm time

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S I am the commander of the army my ORD

yes I know we'll speak of it later come

in

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your I apologize for delaying your

supper sit down

UAH pour us some wi sit

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down

s you're wounded let me call the

physician no no let it alone it's a long

time since I've shed any blood it's good

to have proof that it still runs in my

veins sit down

George we must decide on our strategy

forba is well defended unfortunately

there are no joshuas among us to command

the walls to fall

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down what would you do urah I can speak

for the menar every man in the Army

would be glad to die for David a

thousand dead perhaps two 1 th Vineyards

and flocks left untended a thousand

women wailing on my

doorstep you have a wife youah yes sir

she will come to my door in tears if I

am unlucky no it is a certainty in warp

time the best are always the first to

die then her tears will be tears of

Pride you too young to know much of

women and too brave whereas I am a

coward a coward sir

my men go into battle singing an old

song Saul has slain his thousands and

David his 10 thousands that was years

ago when I was Captain of a 100 like

yourself I was not the

king you will serve me better if you

live

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U come

j remain here continue with your

meal I will return to Jerusalem in the

morning

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oh king of Judah and

Israel live

forever the pharaoh of Egypt sends

greetings to his beloved

cousin the Pharaoh bids me prostrate

myself before the great king

and to present this humble token of

Egypt's

regard the king of Israel warms himself

in the sun of the pharaoh's

regard my beloved cousin the phoh

probably hopes that I'll cut my throat

with this Nathan the prophet of

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God may God Walk with

David it is his custom to walk with

Nathan God looks with favor on your plan

to bring the Ark of the Covenant into

Jerusalem excellent but as to your

intention of building a temple to

receive the ark he has commanded me to

say this to

you thus speaks the Lord should my

servant David did build me a house to

dwell in for I have not dwelt in a house

since the day I brought the Israelites

up out of Egypt even to this day but

ever lived in a tent have I ever in all

these years demanded that a temple be

built for me now therefore I say to

David I took you from the pasture from

guarding your sheep to make you Shepherd

over my people even over all Israel yes

yes I understand God sees no need of a

temple is that it that is his word very

well I leave such decisions to you to

God sire whatever you like you may take

full charge of the arrangements to bring

the ark here from B

Judah my

father will you hear my petition happen

my son you need not beg for an audience

you promised me as the air to Israel All

The Vineyards north of the M of Olives

as far as the borders of Ephraim yet you

have given the large Vineyard on the

gibian road to Absalon

did I only last month you said it was

mine your Amon claims it I demand only

Justice and what does Absalon demand

Justice

too then no matter how I decide I am

unjust The Vineyard belongs to amnon

thank you my

father come with me

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I try to understand my problem Amin as

the air has been anointed if it became

known that I favored you it would weaken

him in the eyes of the people we both

know that he needs all the strength that

we can give it we both know he is not

fit to be air that I cannot help you

could anoint me in his

place even if I wanted to I am Bound by

the law with our people the law is

everything it is in their bones

it's only one Vineyard

Epsilon I'll give you your choice of my

own Holdings I want only what is

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mine here take

this is worth 20 bils

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Michael I did not expect to see you here

does my presence displease the king of

course not you're always welcome if the

sight of me is so welcome why haven't

you come to my chamber since your return

I had much on my mind yet you found time

to greet your other

wives I was the

first and now I'm the last if you had

been with the others I would have

greeted you too you remain aloof by your

own

choice there was a time when you thought

well of my

aloofness I make no objection to it

now do as you please how

graciously you give your Royal approval

your sarcasm is wasted we both know that

royalty is a fraud it was no fraud when

my father was King I've never denied

that Saul was every inch a king

and his successor every inch of

frud I will not argue with that

either do you

think that hanging his spear on your

wall will make you Royal Michael

please I have messages to

you

oh I understand

I am

dismissed The Shepherd's son is

dismissing the daughter of

Saul I am to go and sit with the

concubines they are my

wives and you are my

wife is that not

enough why did you marry me

David why

because I loved

you you

lie you have never loved anyone but

yourself David meaning

beloved David the Beloved of David

whatever you say my love was wasted you

had no need of

it is your memory so

short I had great need of it

once I begged you on my knees but you

deserted me you refused to follow me

into

Exile you even Dishonored your vows and

let your father marry you to another

against my will you can say

so I cannot help thinking that real love

would have fathered a stronger will then

why did you take me

back you might have guessed

without Saul's daughter at my side the

northern tribes would not have

acknowledged me as King by taking you

back I made Israel

one

Michael we're past the days of our

passion love or hatred or anguish even

cruelty why should we torture

ourselves we have to go on living

Michael

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oh

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abai there is a

house over there under that big Terin

tree you know it yes sir the house of

UAH the hittite UAH the hitti he's a

captain with the army yes I know

him does he by any chance have a sister

mea has a wife a Hebrew woman of

Benjamin called

bsha B

shba during my visit to the Army this

uriah's gallantry was called to my

attention it's been in my mind to reward

him perhaps in his absence his wife

could accept the reward I'll send for

the woman in the morning sir no send for

her now she shall f with me

tonight yes

sir you're not

eating I dined early asah it is my

custom when I am

alone as a soldier's wife you have good

reason to hate the king who keeps your

husband from your side the king does

what he must his needs are the

kingdoms not all of them

this wine is Phoenician I find it

mellower than ours it has the blandness

of the Sea

Air have

you ever visited the coast no s I lived

for several years among the Philistines

the cold people like their

sea we Hebrews are of the desert we

breathe its wind and our blood runs hot

with it our emotions are Fierce like the

Desert Wind we worship Our God fiercely

we love fiercely we feel sorrow fiercely

even the Lesser sorrow is like the

absence of a loved

one has your Rah been away for long we

have been married 7 months of this time

we've been together six days a poor

return on the hopes of your betrothal

you are generous indeed not to hate

me I had no hope

S I first saw Uriah on our wedding day

when my father brought me to his house

house then 6 days is the sum total of

Your Love of our marriage yes s

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one of the vanities of Kings is that

they think virtue can be rewarded with a

bobble Our God must laugh at the

spectacle of unver virtuous Kings

hanging bits of rock and metal on

virtuous men

that is for

virtue now you understand why I sent for

you my understanding is not necessary s

why not you are the

king was that

all well leave the king out of it think

of any man would be content with such an

answer what other answer can I give s

you have sent for me and made known to

me your

will what else is there for me to

say in Egypt that would be enough

there the Pharaoh has certain rights he

can command but I even if I had the

right I've never used my power to take

anything by

force all that I have ever had has been

given to

me freely without

restraint even Israel I refuse the

throne until every Elder of every tribe

had come to me and Begg me to take

it it's been a kind of pride

my

pride never to force myself on

anyone so I said nothing to you until

you told me that there is no love in

your

marriage yes you told me that and so did

euriah his dream of Glory is his wife in

tears you better go

I no keep that it's only a stone but you

lended

beauty Shai is a

fool when I looked on you for my Terrors

tonight I knew that every future moment

spent away from you would be a moment

lost yet he's found only six days for

you in 7 months the perfume of his

beloved is the stink of War does he

think that a man was made only for the

agony of battle does he called that

manhood is he no blood no

heart now

go be thankful that I am not

feral at least I can console myself with

the thought that your modesty matches

your

beauty perhaps you would prefer truth to

modesty

s before you went away I used to watch

you every evening as you walked on your

Terrace always at the same hour always

alone today I heard you had returned

then you knew that that you would be on

your Terrace

tonight

yes I had heard that never had the king

found a woman to please

him I dared to hope that I might be that

woman why are you telling me this now

why not before because

first I had to know what was in your

heart if the law of Moses is to be

broken David let us break it in full

understanding of what we want from each

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other no please I'm not

finished there are women you could send

for and send away again

I am not one of

them what do you

want to please

you have I not made it plain enough that

you please

me I'll never send you away that is what

you want Never As Long As I been no

David that is not all I

want think not of this one night but of

all the days and all the nights to come

think if I can give you what you need

for as long as you

live as your

wife but you're not

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free if I were

free a king is not supposed to need

anything only a fool would suppose that

well then

friendship I had a friend once but I

destroyed

him the others who call themselves

friends

I I never see their eyes only the tops

of their heads as they bow to

me their hands are extended to me but

Palms upwards for

favors even my own

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Sons will I see your eyes B Shea

you will see

them and my hand will be in

yours that much is easy

David I'm only a man B

Shiva I need someone to understand that

I need the kind of understanding that

only one human being can give to

another I need someone to share my heart

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the man I watched from my window was not

the king but a

man whose heart is well worth the

sharing

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oh David

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no David the boy he'll see

us no matter shepher Bo learn early

about

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life did you David

did I what learn about life

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early before I was 12 I knew almost

everything there was to know about

life and death 12 I'd killed wolves 13 a

man tell me not about the

killing tell me about the boy you were

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couldn't be of any interest to

you a woman is interested in everything

about her

man particularly in what he was before

she knew him well there's not much to

tell I was a Shepherd like thousands of

others in

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Judah you slept out under the stars

H did you dream

David what did you dream

about surely a man is entitled to the

privacy of his

dreams then they were of women

naturally a whole procession of them and

every one of them ravishingly

beautiful I'm jealous of every one of

them

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it's been a dry

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year the Shepherds had driven early to

the

Wells once when I was a boy we had a

year when even the wells went dry

by Midsummer we were slaughtering sheep

saving only the you

Lambs that was the year that I fought

the Wolves tell me all have been made

desperate by hunger I've fought them for

8 hours with my slingshot in the morning

six of them lay dead and you were only a

boy oh I was quite a hand with a

sling here I'll show

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you may I try your sling

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that tree

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watch very well if you think that you

can do better

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yes well I uh I lack practice

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David did you really kill

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Goliath after seeing me with that sling

how could you doubt

me was he truly as big as they

say well I will admit that he grows a

little bit bigger every year

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a new

life oh that's his mother she's caught

in the brambles

give you some help thank

you let's clear those hind

feet no no use both hands

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I'm an old soldier

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s I fought for the King David not him

son

with the King King

Saul it was in his last

battle there at the Mount of Gilbo it's

peaceful now good grazing for the flocks

though we lack rain this

year but that day it rained

blood yes I saw the King die saw him

fall on his sword when he knew the

battle was

lost tell me did you

also see the king's

suai Jonathan yes sir I

did you see that rock that juts out from

the face of the mountain the big one

with a sun on it Prince Jonathan stood

there with a loyal friend on each side

of him he fought there the livel long

day his friends went down but still he

fought against

tens then against hundreds

they overwhelmed him those

Philistines and their brass and

heathenish

helmets it was a black day for

Israel the king gone Jonathan gone none

worthy to take their place yet Israel

found a king in David Saul was King

Jonathan should be king today

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here thank

you thank you kindly

David come it's getting late

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all

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me

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you

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gathan

gathan for

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how are the mighty

fallen in the midst of the

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battle oh

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Jonathan th was

slain in thine high places

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I am distressed for thee my brother

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Jonathan very pleasant hast thou been

unto

me thy love to me was

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wonderful passing the love of

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women how the mighty Fallen

and the weapons of

war perished

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oh

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greetings

Avatar I received a message of I time

yes sir even now the cavan approaches

Jerusalem but

BBA the Ark of the Covenant the shrine

that has traveled with our people

through all their

wanderings I'm bringing it here to its

proper

home get in abashi I'll go down to meet

Nathan you'll take that Sheba to her

house

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Mercy I beg you it's for you to cast the

first stone

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mer adulterous sir she betrayed her

husband in the arms of another she was

judged condemned under the

law go take her home

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s

Nathan God's design is a strange one

Nathan

consider how this box of wood has

outlived the flesh that made it and

preserved it and venerated

It a Pity that it is mute and blind and

cannot tell us of our ancient

dead of Moses on the Mountaintop of

Miriam and

Aaron of Joshua at the walls of Jericho

no

sir do not tempt the Thunderbolts of the

Lord his dwelling is not to be profane

by unconsecrated hands to touch it is to

die as you say Nathan

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the AR the AR to the Covenant and fall

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is

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dead let all take heed and bear witness

to what they have seen that the people

may know the will of

God time is not right for the entrance

into the city unhitch the ox let a

tabernacle be erected on this spot that

the ark remain here outside the walls

until God has signified the appeasement

of his Wrath

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David that's

sha you shouldn't have come here I had

no choice my news would not wait

David I bring you trouble

our secret is no longer a secret who has

learned it no one yet but soon all will

know who have eyes to

see I'm sure now of what I have feared

this past

week I am with

child

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beloved no need for

Tears you bring me only joy

what man would not be happy to learn

that his wife will give him a

child I am not your wife you are my only

wife please beloved do not be

afraid I am not

afraid soon enough we must all go down

to

shol my tears are for our child who will

never see the light Beth Sheba listen to

me you will not die the law says that I

must they would not dare I am the king

the Israelites have had Kings for less

than 50

years they've had the law of Moses for

hundreds then I will give them their

Kingdom you and I will flee into Egypt

no

David your life is marked out on a

certain

course even you cannot change it it is

God's design

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there is another

answer

Uriah Uriah is a

soldier soldiers die every day in battle

and not always by enemy hands no David

even our love could not bear the burden

of such a

crime the crime lies in the chance that

I was born a Hebrew in any other Nation

on Earth uah's life would be forfeit it

would be no less a

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crime if I sent for him told him

everything we both know what he would

say yes honor is everything charity

nothing for the sake of Honor blood must

flow lives must be ruined Humanity

denied I can see you ran now

hurrying to the gate eager to be the

first to cast a

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stone what is it abai the orders for J

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AB yes

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do not send it

now I may want to add to the message gu

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up there is another

way perhaps it will solve

nothing but at least it will gain us

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time if Uriah can be made to believe

that the child is

his but he has been away almost a year I

will send for

him to report on the

campaign he'll be here in Jerusalem one

night perhaps

two you called me your wife the law

calls you his that is not wor worthy of

you

David it tears my heart to suggest such

a

thing but it is your life

beloved your

life you're a shame for what you ask

there is no shame too

great no act so vile that I would not

committed it would save my

love e

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a

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oh

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it is late and our guest must be will

from the road

have your

eyes perh allow my son it's many days

since we've seen you at the palace I've

been in Judah s tending to my Vines and

do you expect a good yield from your

Vines I have no reason to be

dissatisfied sir in such a bad

year you're to be

congratulated I should like a word with

you in private UAH I'm at my King's

Service I will not keep you long must be

eager to go

home to your

wife you say the attack is planned for

the day after tomorrow yes sir job is

confident that it will meet with success

he promises you R within a week

Sir with your permission sir I plan to

return to Camp early tomorrow so that I

may lead myund into the battle as you

wish abashi will have dispatches for you

to

carry but if you desire to remain in

Jerusalem longer my only desire is to

serve my king

I might believe that but you have a wife

my wife is nothing sir beside my

duty sit down

yah they say she's very beautiful as

women

go a woman does not always share her

husband's Devotion to

duty have you ever tried to think of

things from her point of view no sir but

supposing her wishes and yours come into

conflict a woman's wishes cannot

conflict with a husband sir that is the

law the law the law can only control

what we do not what we think what does

your wife think

you I do not know sir is it possible

that you believe that she does not think

or

feel a woman is flesh and blood duah

like

us perhaps even more so because we give

her so little to think of but matters of

the Flesh in all our history only a

handful of women have been permitted to

write their names beside the men Miriam

Deborah JL perhaps one or two more a

woman's occupation is her

husband and her life is her

love but if her her husband rejects her

love if he puts Another Love before it

if he denies her the only meaning that

her life can

have is it not understandable if she

seeks a meaning for it

elsewhere with another

man yes if she does she breaks the

law but if her husband feels pity for

her under the law he is the one who must

condemn her then it is doubly his duty

to be sure that the laws

obeyed would you condemn your own wife

you

BBA but that is not

possible but if it were

possible I would not hesitate to do my

duty sir

you would force her to suffer the most

horrible of

deaths let the M drive her like a dog

through the streets to the city

Gates watch the cruel Stones strike her

flesh

look yes

sir if she had broken the

law I've kept you too long from your bed

you may

go

sir will you grant me a boom what is

your

wish when abashi prepares the

dispatches let him say this to joab in

your name set your ey on the Forefront

of the hottest battle that he may serve

as king to the utmost of his ability

I will consider it UAH my thanks sir

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you

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you are up late

David so are you I thought I might be of

comfort to my husband

it's a terrible thing to know that your

beloved is in the arms of another do not

trouble the lie you see I know your

secret yours and the lady

Bashas you know nothing the lady has

servants servants tell things to other

servants and they in turn tell them to

their

Mistresses so the daughter of Saul con

Cox a fantasy from servants gossip bash

is condition is no fantasy and the child

she carries is

yours oh my husband I guessed it once

why you had sent for UAH only David

would have thought of it a clever trick

worthy of the son of goat hers get

out you cannot save basiba now your

scheme has

failed Uriah has not been to his house

all night

even now he sleeps here in the palace

with the offices of your guard

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oh

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s forgive

me I have slept late I told you to go

home I ask your pardon

sir I could not go to my wife why

not it's a matter of my own

worthiness perhaps you will consider

this foolish but when joob told me I was

to come to

Jerusalem I swore an oath on my sword

I swore that while the Army still slept

in tense while rabber still stood in

defiance of God's

will I would deny myself the Comforts

and the pleasures of my own house I

would keep myself clean for battle as if

for entering the Tabernacle of the

Ark I'm sorry if I have offended my

king if the dispatches are ready I will

go

you

fool

you're blind

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fo

s dispatches for J

S dispatches I give them to your r

no

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no there is an additional

order set UAH in the Forefront of the

hottest

battle it is his own wish aash

Shai even his own words

is that

all

no I will not add hypocrisy to my other

sins even if job should understand what

I intend I cannot ask him to share the

burden of my

guilt here is the

order set your eye in the Forefront of

the hottest battle and retire from him

that he may be smitten and die yes when

it is finished seal it and give it to

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Uriah yes

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sir e

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s we bring great news the walls of

rabber have been breached when we left

there was fighting in the streets of the

city

joab bids me urge you to come to Raba

with all speed to receive the surrender

of your

enemies and our dead our losses have

been heavy

sire of the captains of a thousand aimc

the son of jel and heed the son of Ikes

of the captains of a 100 hez the carite

eal the son of zelik

AI the son of rii Abel the

arite eliam the son of ruin shamama the

harodite UAH the hittite bayai the

gadite as MTH the son of Eli and many

more are

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wounded how

did Uriah the hitte die there was a

mistake in the order s IAH Advanced too

far into the breach and was cut off from

his

command when you have eaten and rested

prepare to return to Raba I will ride

with you

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s s lady b sha servant waiting for your

answer go to B shba

tell her that Uriah is

dead tell her to prepare for our

marriage at the end of her month of

morning will you not go there

yourself no

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a

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the hand of God is heavy on his people

thus speaks the Lord I will withhold the

rains and cause the fields and Vineyards

to dry up and the flocks to grow thin I

will waste the land with drought the

people with

famine yay I will Smite Israel for it

sined against me wo unto Israel wo unto

my people who have have

sinned what sin

Nathan the Lord has not Bo safe to me

its

nature but evidently the sin is great

thus to incur his

wrath does it take so much to make him

angry that soldier who laid hands on the

ark he was only trying to be helpful it

is not for us to question the ways of

the Lord I question

nothing yet the sun was hot that day the

man had had been drinking wine all were

excited when the ark began to

fall is it not possible that the man

might have died naturally from other

causes all causes are of

God we've had droughts before Nathan I'm

buying grain in Egypt and philistia

there will be enough for everyone until

the rains come if I have to empty my

treasuries now what more can I

do is there anything else yes sire I

have sat in the gate and listened to the

people talk of the king what do they say

they say that David is no longer David

they say that he neglects his duty that

he is often away from the city when he

is here he has turned his face from his

people petitioners are sent away from

his door without a hearing the hard

times it's natural that some will

complain complain yes

sire but not talk openly of overthrowing

the

king explain yourself the hearts of the

Israelites are turning after your

son well it's difficult to imagine poor

amnon winning anyone's heart not amnon

your second son

absolum boy every day he is at the gate

seeking those you have turned away to

these he says oh that I were made a

judge in the land that all may come to

me and receive

Justice confine yourself to the Affairs

of God

leave the Affairs of the Kingdom to

me oh abai I have orders for

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joab the king forgets that he too is a

servant of the Lord

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all

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the priests are

waiting I have been waiting these days

and

weeks waiting for a word from the one

who called himself my lover for a sign

that all of his promises were not lies

do not call me that even the word is a

lie if you still loved me you would not

have avoided me you would not have left

me in

darkness alone with my fears you know

that I was called to re it is a week

since your

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return they are

waiting let them

wait there will be no way

I will not try to justify my

behavior but even if I have earned your

hatred you know why the wedding must

take

place I could more easily find courage

to face the stones of the

M if our marriage is no more than an act

of Charity on your PA then say so if I

have lost your love tell me and I will

trouble you no

longer I am not a begger David

beloved it is I who am the

beggar I beg your

patience if you love me say no

more take my love on

faith it is

yours and will always be yours

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come my wife

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the

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oh

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let go

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all

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my lady the king should be called if you

would again see his son

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alive calling

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son lady Bast but asks your

presence the child is

better no sir

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the Physicians can do no

more they say you will die

I

know I have known it these seven

days I have Lain in sackcloth on the

earth I have fasted I have tried to

pray my prayers were only

words going out into

emptiness I fell on no ears but my home

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sir you tell me to inform you the

ambassador from Egypt has

arrived shall I send him

away you know what we'll go

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down time for grieving has

passed would bring my son back if I

mourn for

him now I shall go to him

but he will not return to me

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the heart of the Pharaoh bleeds for his

cousin and for the people of Israel but

alas the Pharaoh storehouses are empty

there is barely enough grain to feed

Egypt the heart of the Pharaoh cannot

bleed for it is bloodless the

storehouses of Egypt are full my sacred

Osiris I swear to you I speak

truth dog of Egypt you lie and your

master

lies is only what I expected charity is

not to be found among the virtues of

those who make gods of vultures and

hyenas now go na them the prophet of God

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I come on a matter of Justice sire here

and render

judgment you may speak

there were two men one rich and one poor

the rich man owned great flocks and

herds but the poor man had not but one

new lamb he reared it and it grew up

with him and his children it ate of his

food and drank of his cup and it was

like a daughter to him now there came a

way FAA to the rich man asking meat but

the rich man did not take of his own

flocks feed his guest instead he took

the poor man's one you lamb and slew it

and prepared it for the

wayfer what is your verdict upon this

man he shall restore the lamb Sevenfold

the lamb is dead it cannot be restored

then the man deserves to die because he

had no

pity you are the man

you have made me pronounce sentence upon

myself very

well it is

done and there is no

appeal it is the will of God and I

accept it gladly it is not his will that

you should die David worthy or unworthy

you are his anointed through samel he

chose you to lead his people your labors

in his behalf are still

unfinished but you cannot escape the

punishment of the

Lord I have not escaped

it my son is dead his Justice is still

unsatisfied you have paid for your

adultery but you have also killed you

have taken up the sword and slain your

fellow creature for your desire now

therefore the sword shall never depart

from your house you shall know the

hatred and ingratitude of your own flesh

brother shall turn against brother and

Son against

father the history of David's house

shall be a history Written in Blood you

tell me nothing

new I am content even so the tally of

the Lord is not paid the woman has been

denounced she also must expiate her sin

she has lost her child is that not

enough B Sheba has sinned and she must

render payment according to the law of

Moses

uriah's death was my act and mine alone

she was a faithless wife faithless only

because I made her so could she deny the

king when I called her could she refuse

to obey my

commands no she would never lie for

herself and I will not lie for her

but even if she

sinned she has done no

evil she came to me with love and

tenderness she lifted up my

heart she has brought no evil with her

she has brought adultery and murder she

has brought the drought and the

famine she has brought the wrath of God

upon Israel

I know the law and so does David yes I

know the

law where are the

accusers under the law they must cast

the first

stone where are those who will say that

I knew B Sheba before our

marriage who will dare to say it to my

face so there are no accusers you have n

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Michael I cannot find it in my heart to

blame you for what you

do but you

Absalon my

son have I given you cause to hate me so

go David and bring bash Sheba here to

face judges you have made her a queen in

Israel it is not fitting that she should

be dragged to judgment by the people

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lady have a shine go to the stable and

get horses bring them to the gate in the

Garden Wall yes sir oh not that way

they'll be watching go by way of the

Terrace can be out of the city before

they know that we've gone t

Alice is

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surrounded call the guard surely my own

bodyguard can be trusted go

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go no

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David we cannot fight against the will

of God a God who punishes the Guiltless

I am not without guilt

David now I know how Uriah

died I think I really knew before our

marriage knew and put it from my mind I

lack the courage to face the

truth my guilt is as great as yours

greater because I let you bear the

burden of it alone I killed him I wished

him

dead God sees into our hearts

David I am

ready God I cannot let them take you I

cannot let you

die

David yes

Lord in all our time together you have

never played for me

something from your

Boyhood when you were a shepherd

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the Lord is my

shepherd I shall not

want he maketh me to lie down in Green

Pastures he leadth me beside the Still

Waters he restoreth my

soul he leadth me in the paths of

righteousness for his name's

sake

yeah though I walk through the valley of

the shadow of

death I will fear no evil for thou art

with

me thy rod and thy

staff they comfort

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me thou preparest a table before me in

the presence of mine enemies

thou anointest my head with

oil my cup runneth

over surely goodness and

mercy shall follow me all the days of my

life and I will dwell in the house of

the

Lord forever

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goodness and

mercy when I wrote those

words I believed in such a

God I was only an ignorant Shepherd

boy there was no one to teach me about

God so I taught

myself I saw

him in the

hills in the

trees and the Miracle of the birth of

lambs I felt his Mercy when the Wolves

had fled and my flock was

safe when spring broke the grip of snow

and

ice when the cool wind

blew after the heat of the

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day I saw his

Splendor and the flowers blazing on the

hillsides

the stars burning in the

sky and knew his

hand in

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everything then I wandered from

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him when I tried to find him

again I had lost him

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somewhere in Saul's

court or when I Ro the desert in

Exile were in the camp of the

Philistines His Image paled in the

lights of the

cities and his voice was drowned

quarreling and

scheming of the

ambitious and the mighty

and now Nathan has found him for

me not the god of my Boyhood

days but a god without

Mercy a God who thinks only of his

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justice so you must

die as the soldier died when he tried to

save the ark from falling

put his hands on the ark like

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this you shall not die

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you shall not

die these are all who are willing sir it

will be enough take your stand at this

door if anyone tries to enter cut him

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down you'll go to the right

door go in the wall

you do the stair you

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do where's the woman she is not

coming he is the king

you have heard the word of God I have

heard the word of Nathan you have told

me that God demands Justice that I will

believe but I will not believe that he

would condemn a helpless woman for

another's crime where are you going to

the Tabernacle if God is what you say he

is if this is truly his Justice then let

him speak for himself will you go to him

in Anger he has shown me nothing but

anger he has turned his face from me it

was David who first turned his face from

God once there was a David who knew how

to pray who sought nothing for himself

at the hands of God who found his

strength in faith alone if that David

still lives his God will not deny him

Mercy

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h

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what

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oh

God th God of my early youth

hear my

prayer let Thine

Eyes which alone See

Clearly fall upon thy worthless

servant in all

things have I failed

thee my life is a

waste my crimes are are

many and

terrible to my sons I have bequeathed

the evil that is in my

blood I have led my people into

misery and

want I have used thee

with

ingratitude and betrayed thy Trust

I have been a

faithless

Shepherd I am dust in the sight of thine

eyes I am less than the meanest

creature crawling in the

earth and yet oh

God I am also thy creation

take

not thy Holy Spirit from

me thy

Spirit which Abode with

me in the

wilderness I ask nothing for myself oh

God by my

sins I have put myself beyond the

compass of thy

forgiveness but lift thine hand from thy

people who suffer for my

crimes forgive them the sin that is not

theirs but

mine let the land th gave us their

fathers flow once

more with thine abundance

and let Beth Shea

live to praise thy

name and testify to thy

mercy show her the loving kindness of

thy

heart cleanse her from sin

and let thy

punishment fall on thy servant who has

earned

it look not on the sinner who comes

before

thee but on the boy he

was Who Loved

thee and who would have died for thee

make my heart as

his let the boy live

again in his

innocence Grant him thy

mercy and take this David's life

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J your father B you come to his house

I am to stay with the Sheep the prophet

is there the prophet Samuel himself it

is said that he comes to choose a king

over

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Israel

Eli

Abad

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chambar the the Lord has not chosen one

of these any father would be proud of

such Sons you do well to feel Pride

Jesse the Lord does not see as man sees

for man looks on the outward appearance

but the Lord looks on the

heart who is this my youngest son David

who attends the Sheep but he's only a

boy a dreamer a singer of

songs come here David

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the Lord has

chosen honor him

David walk his

light and you shall serve

him as few are permitted to

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serve where is your Champion

Hebrews who will stand for and face me

it is the giant of gar challenging us to

send a champion against him and so

decide the battle s the men have heard

his challenge these 40 Dawns they cow

like whipped dogs at his voice unless he

is met and soon our cause is lost and is

there no one in the ranks of Israel who

dares to meet this man s if Goliath were

only a man any one of us would go but

he's like no man born of woman his

height is six cubits and a span and his

spear is like a Weaver's beam there are

dogs indeed to run before one

fistin is there no courage in Israel our

courage alone is not enough no Arrow can

pierce the Giant's armor no spear can

thrust beneath the reach of his arms he

casts his spear a 100 long

Paces we call ourselves the chosen of

the

Lord are we to let the enemies of God

take Israel because we lack a champion

sire I will meet

Goliath who is that speaks come

forward David my armor Bearer I will

meet him sire

Sir Samuel calls this boy the Lord's

anointed if you let him go down to face

the giant Samuel's prophecy can be

proved or

disproved David you may meet Goliath no

David father he is my friend silence

Jonathan go David with God

David is the liar the dog that you send

a boy to meet

him come closer little one come

closer come closer little

one my father let me go down in David's

place no Jonathan let the fistin prove

the Folly of Samuel's prophecy

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DAV it DAV it get up

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w

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oh for

my

no man can ever hope to know the real

nature of God but he has given us a

glimpse of his face

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for his

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name I walk through the

valy of

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the for

th with me

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table

me in

the

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of my

every

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my goodness and

mercy follow me all the days of my

life and I

will the heart of the

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forever and

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