“David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he went to bed with her (for she had been purified from her uncleanness). Then she returned to her house.”-2 Samuel 11:4 I wanna show you another cool wordplay that’s super obvious in Hebrew… But completely lost on English speakers. The phrase “sent […]
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2S11-10: Uriyah the Hittite – A Foreigner With A Hebrew Heart
It turns out archeologists have discovered David’s palace. So we know exactly where he was when he first set eyes on Bathsheba. It sat high up on the eastern slope, at the north end of the City of David. That means everything else in the city was lower than his palace. Bathsheba’s house? Probably just […]