🚨 CENTCOM: Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait.
“The question remains, is God paying attention? If so why doesn’t he do something? I say He has, He did, He is doing something and He will do something .” Elisabeth Elliot
One whole side of the David/Bathsheeba story I never noticed until I interacted with Asian Christians?
Uriah knew everything.
It’s obvious when you read the story in a culture closer to the text. The folks I interacted with were a few generations removed from emperors and concubines and court politics.
The king doesn’t send for the most beautiful woman in the city when her husband is away without the neighbors knowing. In those cultures, if it is POSSIBLE that you could have been alone together as a man and a woman, then you slept together. It was assumed and known. People talk.
Uriah knew.
He was called back from the front, and was given a big dinner by the king, and told to relax and go sleep with his wife. He replied that his conscience couldn’t bear it with the soldiers of Israel still in the field.
This is court political talk.
Just like pharaoh and Moses debating in public about the sacrificial festival in the wilderness, both sides know exactly what is being really debated. There is stuff that can’t be directly acknowledged in public to save face, but it’s obvious to anyone in the know. Moses is demanding to take the Israelites for good. David is insisting that Uriah cover for David impregnating his wife.
Uriah knows he can’t publicly accuse the king of what they both knew he did. But Uriah would rather die than play the cuckold. So he makes some big righteous excuse for never being home alone with his wife, thus making it impossible for anyone to say that the child is his.
Uriah knows this means death. David knows this means death. The two of them understand each other.
Uriah is looking him in the eye and saying, “I can’t do anything to you, you dishonorable bastard, but I’ll be damned if I play along and cover for you. Do your worst—finish your dirty work.”
David coldly says in his eyes, “so you have chosen death.”
Uriah isn’t a clueless goody two shoes sap. He’s a man of honor and a tragic hero.
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