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well the king is not in his tent
not in his tent
and it must be somewhere have you
searched the camp yes sir I brought the
aid you assigned to him I think the man
knows something
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that is a man sir
you were assigned to attend the king yes
sir where did he go
sorry
I I cannot tell you is your commander I
order you to tell me
the king pledged me to silence where is
he
he went with a scouting party
what scouting party every night so we
send out small patrols to test the walls
of the city
and tonight
the Waterway under the north wall the
patrol of 20 men under Captain Uriah
you let him go I could not stop him sir
we had finished the dispatches the king
stood in the mouth of the tent of the
patrol went by he looked after them and
suddenly he took up a sword and followed
them
take a hundred of your best men and go
after them sir
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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good night
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I am the commander of the army my orders
I know we'll speak of it later come in
here
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I apologize for delaying your supper sit
down Uriah
For Us online
sit down
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and 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's
still runs in my veins
sit down Phillip
we must decide on our strategy forever
is well defended
unfortunately there are no joshuas among
us to command the walls to fall down
what would you do Uriah I can speak for
the mensah every man in the Army would
be glad to die for David a thousand dead
perhaps two
a thousand Vineyards and flux left
untended a thousand women wailing on my
doorstep
you have a wife Uriah yes sir she will
come to my door in tears if I'm unlucky
no there's a certainty in Wartime the
best are always the first to die
then her tears will be tears of pride
they were too young to know much of
women and too brave whereas I am a
coward
accounts are
my men go into battle singing an old
song
Saul has slain as thousands and David is
ten thousands that was years ago and I
was Captain of a hundred like yourself
I was not the king
it will serve me better if you live
Uriah
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come job
you're amazing
I will return to Jerusalem in the
morning
wow
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O 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 game
and to present this humble token of
Egypt's regard
king of Israel warms himself in the son
of the pharaoh's regard
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probably hopes that I'll cut my throat
with this Nathan the prophet of God
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may God Walk with David
and this is custom to walk with Nathan
God looks with favor on your plan to
bring the Ark of the Covenant into
Jerusalem excellent but as your
intention of building a temple to
receive the ark he has commanded me to
say this to you God speaks the Lord
should my servant David build me a house
to dwell in for I have not dwelled 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 Guiding
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 well I leave such decisions
to you
to God's side
whatever you like
you may take full charge of the
arrangements to bring the ark here from
Baal Judah
my father
will you hear my petition the heaven of
my son you need not beg for an audience
you promised me as the heir to Israel
All The Vineyards north of the Mount of
Olives as far as the borders of Ephraim
yet you have given the large Vineyard on
the gibrian road to Absalom
only last month you said it was mine
here that I'm not claims it I demand
only Justice
and what does epsilon demand just as two
no matter how I decide I am unjust
The Vineyard belongs to amnon thank you
my father
come with me
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we're trying to understand my problem is
the area has been anointed
that became known that I favored you it
would weaken him in the eyes of the
people
no that he needs all the strength that
we can give him we both know he's not
fit to be air
that I cannot health
annoyed 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
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it's only one Vineyard absolutely
I'll give you your choice of my own
Holdings I want only what is mine
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here take this
it was worth 20 minutes
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Michael
I did not expect to see you here
does my presence displease the game
of course not
you're always welcome
if the sight of me is so welcome why
haven't you come to my Chambers since
your return
I had much on my mark yet you found time
to preacher otherwise
I was the first
and now I'm the last if you've 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 of King
and his successor every inch of fraud
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 read
I understand
I am dismissed
The Shepherd's son is dismissing the
daughter of Saul
I am to go and sit with a 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
said my love was wasted you had no need
of it
your memory is so short
I had great need of it once
I begged you on my knees but you
deserted me
you refuse to follow me into exile
you even Dishonored your vows and let
your father marry you to another against
my will you can't 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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other side
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there's a house
over there under that big Terrapins tree
know it yes sir the house of your ride
the hittite Uriah he's a captain with
the Army as I know him
does he by any chance have a sister from
their side he has a wife
a Hebrew woman a Benjamin called
bathsheva
and during my visit to the Army this
uriah's gallantry was called for my
attention
it's been in my mind to reward it
perhaps in his absence his wife could
accept the reward I'll send to the woman
in the morning sir no send for her now
official dine with me tonight
yes sir
you're not eating
I dined earlier sire
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
his wine is Phoenician
I find it mellower than ours it has the
blandness of the Sea Air
have you
ever visited the coast no sire 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 Sorrows like the absence of a
loved one
as Uriah been away for long
we have been married seven months
of this time we've been together six
days
for return on the hopes of your
betrothal you are generous indeed not to
hate me
I had no hope sire
I first saw Uriah on our wedding day
when my father brought me to his house
then six days is the sum total of Your
Love
of our marriage
yes sir
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thank you
one of the vanities of Kings is that
they think virtue can be rewarded with a
bobble how God must laugh at the
spectacle of unvirtuous Kings hanging
bits of rock and metal on virtuous men
that is for virtue
now you understand why I sent for you
by understanding is not necessary sire
why not
you are the king
is that all
might leave the king out of it think of
any man would be content with such an
answer what other answer can I give Saya
you have sinned for me and made known to
me your will
what else is there for me to say
or 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 begged 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
as you told me that
and so did your eye
his dream of Glory is his wife in tears
you better go
keep that there's only a stone but you
lended beauty
as your eyes are fool
when I looked on you for my Terrace
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
seven months
the perfume of his beloved is the stink
of War does he think that a man was made
only for the agony of battles he called
that manhood is he no blood no heart
I'll go
be thankful that I am not pharaoh
at least I can console myself with the
thought that your modesty matches your
beauty
perhaps you would prefer truth to modest
desire
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 when you
knew that that you would be on your
Terrace tonight
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I had heard that
never had the
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idea to hope that I might be that woman
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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
other
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no please I'm not finished
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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
live 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
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but you're not free
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if I were free
the king is not supposed to need
anything
only a fool would suppose that
program
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 bowed to me
their hands are extended to me but Palms
upwards for favors
even my own Sons
to see your eyes Bathsheba
you will see them
and my hand will be in yours
that much is easy David
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I need someone to understand that
understanding that only one human being
can give to another
I need someone to share my heart
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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good
morning
no David the boy he'll see us
no matter Shepherd boys learn earlier
about life
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did you David
learn about life early
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before I was 12 I knew almost everything
there was to know about life
and death
twelve I'd killed wolves
13 men
tell me
not about the killing
tell me about the boar you were
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couldn't be of any interest to you
a woman is interested in everything
about her man
particularly and what he was before she
knew it
well there's not much to tell
Shepherd like thousands of others in
Judah
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you slept out under the stars
did you dream David
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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
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jealous of every one of them
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um
it's been a dry year
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the shepherds are driven early to the
Wells
I was a boy we had a year when even the
wells went dry
by mid-summer we were slaughtering
sheeps having only the new Lambs
that was the year that I fought the
wolves
tell me you've never been made desperate
by hunger
I'm for eight hours with my
slingshot
in the morning six of them laid dead
and you are only a boy
well I was quite a hand with a sling
here I'll show you
may I try your sling
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on that tree what
oh
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very well if you think that you can do
better
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yes
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well I uh I lack practice
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David did you really kill Goliath
seeing me with that sling how could you
doubt the
was he truly as big as they say
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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
premise
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give you some help thank you
now let's clear those Hinds
oh use both hands
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there
the Mount of gilboa
well now good grazing for the flocks
that we lack rain this year
that day it rained blood
yes I saw the King die so I'm fall on
his sword when he knew the battle was
lost
tell me did you
also see the king's Sunday
Jonathan yes sir I did
you see that rock that juts out from the
face of the mountain
the big one with the sun on it Prince
Jonathan stood there with a loyal friend
on each side of him
fought the other live long day
his friends went down but still he
fought against tens
then against hundreds
they overwhelmed him
oh Philistines
and our brass and heathenish helmets
uh it was a black day for Israel
the king gone Jonathan gone
none were they to take their place
yet Israel found the king
in David Saul was King
Jonathan should be king today
here
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thank you sir
thank you
oh
David
come
getting late
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places
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I am distressed for thee my brother
Jonathan
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very pleasant has thou being unto me
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thy love to me was wonderful
passing the love of women
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how will the mighty Fallen
and the weapons of war
perished
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approaches Jerusalem
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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
swish High a good arm to meet Nathan
you'll take that Shiva to her house
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for you to cast the first stone
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you betrayed her husband in the arms of
another judged condemned under the law
go check her home
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Psy Nathan
God's designers are strange one Nathan
consider how this box of wood has
outlived the flesh that made it
and preserved it and venerated it
Petty that it is mutant blind and cannot
tell us of our ancient dead
of Moses on the Mountaintop of Miriam
and Marion
of Joshua at the walls of Jericho no sir
do not tempt the Thunderbolts of the
Lord
his dwelling is not to be profaned by
unconsecrated hands to touch it is to
die
as you say Nathan
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he's dead
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we'll all take heed and bear witness to
what they've 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 Israel
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thank you
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David
that's humor
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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 landed no one yet
but soon all will know who have eyes to
see
I'm sure enough what I have feared this
past week
I am with child beloved
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thank you
I'll need for Tears you can bring me
only joy but 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'm not afraid
soon enough we must all go down to shale
my tears are for our child who will
never see the light that's cheaper
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 and I will give them their
Kingdom you and I will flee into Egypt
no David
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your life is marked out on a certain
course
even you cannot change it it is God's
desire
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there's another answer
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you're right
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
a crime lies in the chance that I was
born a Hebrew
and any other Nation on Earth your eyes
life would be forfeit it would be no
less a crime
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if I sin for him told him everything
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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 Ryan up
hurrying to the gate eager to be the
first to cast a stone
ah
what is it in the shy the orders of
jibes are
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yes
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did not send it now
I may want to add to the message
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good
there's another way
perhaps that will solve nothing
at least it will gain us time
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if
Uriah can be made to believe that the
child is his
been away almost a year
I will send for him
report on the campaign
we're here in Jerusalem one night
but too
you called me your wife the law calls
you his that is not worthy of you David
oh
that tears my heart to suggest such a
thing
but it is your life beloved
your life
you're ashamed for what you asked
there is no shame too great
no act so vile and I would not commit it
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would save my love
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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 have to be congratulated
yeah I should like a word with you in
private era I'm at my King's Service
will not keep you long
it must be good to go home
you're what
said the attackers planned for the day
after tomorrow yes sir job is confident
that it will meet for Success he
promises you'll rather within a week sir
with your permission sir I plan to
return to Camp early tomorrow so that I
may lead my Hundred into the battle
have you wish have a shy 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 sad beside my duty
Sit down you're right
they say she's very beautiful as women
go
oh
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
her husband Sarah that is the law
the law the law can only control what we
do
not what we think what does your wife
think you are
I do not know sir
is it possible that you believe that she
does not think or feel
a woman is flesh and blood Uriah like us
perhaps even more so because we give us
a little to think of but matters of the
Flesh in all our history only a handful
of women have been tempted 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 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 law is obeyed
would you condemn your own wife era
Bathsheba
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 mob drive her like a dog through
the streets to the city Gates
watch the cruel Stones strike off flesh
look
yes sir
if she had broken the law
I've kept you too long from your bed you
may go
son
will you grant me a pool
what is your wish
I prepares the dispatches
let him say this to job in your name
set your eye on the Forefront of the
hottest battle
that he may serve as king to the utmost
of his ability
I will consider it you're uh
my thanks son
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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 bathshebas
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 concocts a
fantasy from servants gossip
bathsheba's condition is no fantasy
and the child she carries is yours
oh my husband I guessed it once why you
had sent the Uriah
only David would have thought of it
a clever trick worthy of the son of goat
herds get out
you cannot save Bathsheba now
your scheme has failed
Uriah has not been to his house all
night
even now
he sleeps here in the palace with the
officers of your God
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thank you
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sir
forgive me
I have slept late I told you to go home
I ask your pardon sir
I could not go to my wife or not
it's a matter of my own worthiness
perhaps you will consider this foolish
but when job told me I was to come to
Jerusalem
I swore an oath on my sword
I swore that while the Army still slept
in tents while rubber 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 dispatchers are ready I will go
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dispatches if I give them to your uh
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no
it's an additional order
set Uriah in the Forefront of the
hottest battle
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just his own wish ever shine
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 Uriah in the Forefront of the
hottest battle and retire from him that
he may be smitten and die when it is
finished seal it and give it to your
eyes
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yes sir
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what's up
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Messiah we bring great news the walls of
rubber have been breached when we left
there was fighting in the streets of the
city
joab bids me urged you to come to Rabbi
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 adumalek
the son of gerabil and he laid the son
of ikesh
of the captains of a hundred hezra the
Carmelite
egal the son of zelik
ite the son of ribayi
Uriah the hittite
bainai the gadite
has madeth the son of Eli
and many more are wounded
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how did
Uriah the hittite die
there was a mistake in the order sire
Advanced too far into the breach and was
cut off from his command
when you have eaten and rested prepare
to return to Rabbi I will ride with you
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the lady master of a servant waiting for
your answer
go to Bathsheba
tell her that Uriah is dead
tell her to prepare for our marriage
at the end of her month of mourning
will you not go to yourself
no
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thank you
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I will withhold the Reigns and cause the
feels and Vineyards to dry up the flocks
to grow thin I will waste the land with
drought the people with famine
yay I will spite Israel for its sin
against me
woe unto Israel
woe unto my people who have sinned
what's in Nathan
the Lord has not both safe to me its
nature
but evidently the sin is great
thus to incur his Wrath
to 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
been drinking wine
over 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 Philistine
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 I 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 sir
but not talk openly of overthrowing the
king
explain yourself
hearts of the Israelites are turning
after your son
well it's difficult to imagine puran and
winning anyone's heart not amnon your
second son Absalom
before 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 I'm a shy I have orders for job
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the king forgets that he too is a
servant of the Lord
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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
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still love me you would not have avoided
me
would not have left me in darkness
alone with my fears and you know that I
was called to Reba it is a week since
your return
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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
could more easily find courage to face
the stones of the mob
if our marriage is no more than an
active charity on your path then say so
if I have lost your love tell me and I
will trouble you no longer
I'm not a beggar David
this is I who am the bigger
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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all right
sir
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very best when I was your presence
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child is better
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on the Earth
I have fasted I have tried to pray
my prayers were only words
we got into emptiness
fell on new ears but my home
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oh
my God
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you tell me to inform you
the Ambassador from Egypt has arrived
shall I send him away
now I will go down
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for grieving has passed
but I'd bring my son back if I mourn for
him
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but he will not return to me
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and for the people of Israel
but alas
the Pharaoh store houses are empty
there is barely enough green to feed
Egypt
a heart of the Pharaoh cannot bleed for
it is bloodness
the storehouses of Egypt are full my
sacred Osiris I swear to you I speak
truth
of Egypt you lie
and your master lies
only what I expected charity is not to
be found among the virtues of those who
make gods of vultures and hyenas
now go
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I come on a matter of Justice sire here
and rendered 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 he'd ate of his food and
drank of his cup
and it was like a daughter to him
now there came a way fairer to the rich
man asking meat
but the rich man did not take of his own
flux
feed his guest instead he took the poor
man's one you lamb and slew it and
prepared it for the Wayfarer
what is your verdict upon this man
he shall restore the lamb Sevenfold the
lamb is dead it cannot be restored and
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 Samuel he chose you to lead his
people your labors and 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
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 Brothers
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 with 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 that 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 because she refused 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 in the
famine
she has brought the wrath of God upon
Israel
they know the war 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
Bathsheba before our marriage
who will dare to say it to my face
so there are no accusers you have done
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I cannot find it in my heart to blame
you for what you do
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but you Absalom
my son
have I given you cause to hate me so go
David and bring Bathsheba here to face
her judges you have made her a queen in
Israel it is not fitting that you should
be dragged to judgment by the people
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shine
to the stable and yet horses bring them
to the gate in the Garden Wall not that
we'll be watching go by way of the
Terrace
we out of this city before they know
that we've gone tired
surrounded
surely my own bodyguard can be trusted
no go
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no 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 lacked
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
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cannot let you die
David
yes love
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 makers me to lie down in Green
Pastures
he leaders me beside the Still Waters
he restoreth my soul
he leadeth 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 me
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in the presence of mine enemies
thou anointed 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
it was only an ignorant Shepherd boy
there was no one to teach me about God
so I told 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 day
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I saw his blunder
on the flowers blazing on the hillsides
the stars burning in the sky
and knew his hand
in everything
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than I wanted from him
tried to find him again
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I had lost him
somewhere in Saul's Court
or when I roamed the desert in Exile
for in the camp of the Philistines
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His Image paled in the lights of the
Cities
whose voice was drowned quarreling and
scheming
for the ambitious
and the mighty
and now Nathan has found him for me
not the god of my boiler days
the god without Mercy
a God who thinks only of his Justice
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so you must die
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as the soldier died when he tried to
save the ark from falling
he put his hands on the ark like this
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you shall not die
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you shall not die
either all who are willing son
it will be enough take your stand at
this door if anyone tries to Winter cut
him down
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for the wall
death who got hit here
where's the woman she is not coming
all right
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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
cry 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
is that David still lives his God will
not deny him Mercy
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oh God
without God of my early use
hear my prayer
that thine eyes
which alone See Clearly
fall upon thy worthless servant
in all things
of our family
my life is a waste
like crimes on 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 be trained thy Trust
I have been a faithless
Shepherd
I am dust to the side of thine eyes
for I am less than the meanest creature
crawling the Earth
and yet oh God
I am also thy creation
take note
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 from my crimes
forgive them the sin that is not theirs
but mind
let the land thou gave us their fathers
flow once more
With Thine abundance
that she believed
he praised thy name
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 the
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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yeah
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your father 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 Israel
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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 his man sees
for man looks on the outward appearance
but the Lord looks on the heart
who is this
my youngest son David who tends the
Sheep
but he's only a boy
a dreamer a singer of songs
hither David
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Lord has chosen
honor him David
walked in his light
you shall serve him
as few are permitted to serve
d
me
it is the giant of God sir
challenging us to send a champion
against him and so decide the battle
the man have had his challenge these
forty Dawns they cower like whipped dogs
in his voice unless he has met and soon
our cause is lost and is there no one in
the ranks of Israel who dares to meet
this man sire 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 in a span and his spear is like a
Weaver's beam there are dogs indeed to
run before one for listening
alone is not enough
no Arrow can pierce the Giants armor no
spear can thrust beneath the reach of
his arms
he casts his spear a hundred long pieces
call ourselves the chosen of the Lord
are we to let the enemies of God take
Israel because we lack a champion
Messiah I will meet Goliath
what is it that speaks
come forward
David my armor Bearer I will meet him
sire
Samuel calls this boy the Lord's
anointed
if you let him go down to face the giant
Samuel's prophecy can be proved
oh David
you may meet Goliath no David father he
is my friend silence Jonathan
go David with God David
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my father let me go down in David's
place no Jonathan
let the Philistine prove the Folly of
Samuel's prophecy
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the Lord is much better come over here
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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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my God
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with all
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my God
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and I will pray
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for us
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