King David Page #4

and the weapons of war perished.

This is the word

of the Lord of Hosts.

I took you from the pastures

and from following the sheep

to be prince

over My people, Israel.

I have been with you

wherever you have gone

and have destroyed

all the enemies in your path.

I will make you a great name

among the great ones

of the earth,

and will assign a place

for My people in Israel.

There I will plant them,

and they shall dwell

in their own land.

Why am I brought before you?

Does a husband not

have the right

to enjoy the company

of his wife?

My husband is

Paltiel ben Laish.

The king knows that

well enough.

I am your husband.

Your first and only husband

in the eyes of God.

I've never loved another woman

as I once loved you.

If you truly cared for me,

you would let me go home

to the man that I love.

You have many wives,

but he has only me.

But I need you.

Indeed you do, My Lord,

as a symbol of unity

between the house of David

and the house of my father.

I'm nothing more to you

than a political necessity.

Today, all of Israel

praised the Lord,

except you.

By your absence,

you insult both your

God and your king.

I saw no king.

I saw only a dancing man,

flaunting his nakedness

in the sight of every

- common whore in the city.

- In the sight of God,

who created man in the

perfection of His own image.

So your search is over.

What search?

Behold.

The king of glory.

Face to face.

Your other women are better able

to flatter your vanity than I.

A love untouched by human care.

A love that endures forever.

He who has saved us

from our enemies,

who has delivered Jerusalem

into our hands.

How have we repaid him?

By rewarding ourselves alone

with the wealth

He has bestowed upon us.

Now I, too, am guilty,

for here I live

in a palace of cedar,

while the Ark of God

is housed in a tent.

How then can we demonstrate

our love for him?

I will tell you how.

By building him this- a great

and glorious temple!

Here on this holy hill of Zion,

in which His sacred presence

may abide forevermore.

Is there a man among you,

indeed, is there a man

in this nation

who would not gladly give

one tenth

of his God-given wealth

to such an endeavor?

Has the Lord considered

my request?

God is not a man that

He should gird himself about

with the trappings of kingship.

If He desired

that the Ark reside

in a temple instead of a tent,

would He not have commanded

Moses to build Him one?

Perhaps He didn't consider

was either the time or place

for such a venture.

The tent was intended

as a symbol of simplicity

and humility,

the two virtues

you seem to have forsaken.

Let the Lord be my judge.

When will you bring me

His answer?

When you have first

carried out the task

you were chosen to perform-

destroy the heathen nations

that occupy our lands.

Have I not already done so?

Their armies but not

their inhabitants.

The law of Moses commands

that not a single living

thing be left alive.

I don't believe God's kingdom

can be brought about

by the slaughter

of women and children.

Who are you

to question His laws?

A man after God's own heart.

God gave the law unto Moses

face to face.

Absalom.

Now, it came to pass

that Maacah bore David

a daughter...

Absalom.

...that he called Tamar.

And Amnon, his first born,

was sick with love for her.

Where's Absalom?

Am I my brother's keeper?

Half-brother.

Let go!

Stand back, stand back.

I have a petition!

Father!

Absalom.

My Lord, my petition!

Have you some grievance

against me?

On behalf of one of

your subjects, Father.

Has he a good case?

He has an excellent case.

My niece awaits your presence

in the throne room.

Who?

Why, Bathsheba, My Lord.

The petition, Father.

Will you read it?

Your Excellency!

My Lord!

Perhaps you and Absalom

would care to consider

the other petitions

until my return.

Certainly, My Lord.

Shall we begin, My Prince?

Guards...

Silence!

By his command, I am authorized

to dispense his subjects.

No petitioners.

That's all.

I've seen you once before.

I know.

My Lord, I am married.

To Captain Uriah,

an alien... Hittite.

He is still my husband.

How long have you

been married to Uriah?

Five years, My Lord.

And yet you have no children?

He scorns to lie with me.

He refuses even to touch me,

except with a whip.

He shall be punished.

Woman has no redress

against her husband, My Lord.

I can endure the pain,

but where is the child

for whom I have suffered?

You shall have him.

No, My Lord.

Not while my husband lives.

Deliver this to Captain Joab.

Yes, My Lord.

Uriah.

See that Joab receives it

in person.

Yes, My Lord.

And the messenger said

to David,

"The bowmen upon the walls

of Akron fired their arrows

"at your servants.

"Among the dead is Uriah,

the Hittite,

"who had been placed

in the forefront

of the attack. "

David said, "Who knows

where the Angel of Death

will strike?"

He'll marry me.

He said so.

Who? Who said so?

Who did this thing?

- Your brother, Amnon.

- Half-brother.

Half-brother, half-brother.

Half-brother marry half-sister.

He will marry me.

Oh...

Absalom.

Forgive me, Father.

"Wherever hurt is done,

you shall show no mercy.

"You shall take eye for eye,

tooth for tooth,

"hand for hand,

"burn for burn,

"wound for wound,

"stripe for stripe,

life for life. "

Prince Absalom must die.

The law has long recognized

a brother's right

to avenge his sister's death.

But the princess is alive.

She...

She is dead.

Both here and here.

Now, the king's sentence-

Prince Absalom shall be banished

to our estates in Hebron,

there to live

in permanent exile.

May the Lord be with you.

May His light shine

within your heart,

even as you shine within mine.

Save me, O God,

for the waters are coming

unto my soul.

I sink in deep mire

where there is no standing.

I am come into deep waters

where the floods overflow me.

I am weary of my crying.

My throat is dry.

My eyes fail

while I wait for my God.

I have become a stranger

unto my children.

I would much value

your judgment on a matter.

Since when have you

ever valued my judgment?

Have your powers of divination

forsaken you?

It is a civil petition, David,

concerning a wealthy merchant

and one of his servants.

The, uh, merchant is a man

of... great prominence

who owns large flocks and herds.

But the servant

on whose behalf I speak

owned nothing

but one small ewe lamb.

He had reared it himself,

and it grew up in his own home.

Indeed, it was

as an only child to him.

It ate from his dish,

drank from his cup, and...

even slept in his arms.

Not long ago,

a traveler came

to the merchant's house

to dine with him...

but the merchant was too selfish

to take a sheep

from his own flock to serve

before his guests, so...

he took his servant's lamb,

and killed it,

and served that instead.

As the Lord lives,

the man who did this

deserves to die.

Thou art the man.

This is the word

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