I have to start this post saying that I really liked this story. I think it has been the best story in the Bible yet. It always kept my interest. I liked how it was very human in a way, and how someone was always on the verge of danger.
The first thing I liked was that Goliath and the Philistinth army defied the other army. It started on a good note. It was interesting and from that beginning I already wanted to know which warrior won the battle. Anyways, when David fought against him, I thought it was very dumb how he won. "17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David." That just doesn't happen; not even in fiction.
I don't like how Saul is so jealous. If it wasn't because of that, the whole problem could have been avoided. It is very selfish and a little stupid on his part when he says: "18:7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. 18:8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?"
It is very unfair how Saul makes David do things that he knows are impossible, even if David somehow manages to accomplish them because he has God's approval. I don't like Saul's attitude of being better.
At the beginning it took me some time to understand who Michal was, but I finally understood that she is David's wife. I like how she does the thing of putting goat hair on the pillow so that it seems like he is there. That is something that we still do today to cover up people.
I think that it is very unfair, which I have noticed is a word I use a lot in all my posts, that because one priest gave away David's location Saul had to kill so many. It is inhuman, and that makes me dislike him just that more. I can't believe David likes him! "22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword."
It was a little weird and unexpected that in one part where David asked God what was going to happen, he answered that David would follow him and that they would betray him, but in the end they didn't even go. If God is so powerful, why didn't he know what would happen in the end? I don't think I trust his predictions anymore.
Although I have grown to realize that culture was different in those times, I didn't expect that as soon as someone's husband died, a complete stranger could take the girl as his wife if she agreed to it, like happened with Abigail. She didn't even mourn for her ex, but went right on to marry David. To me that means that love didn't mean as much in those times.
It was weird how Saul died, and David cried for him. If I was him, I would have been happy that he was no longer prosecuting me! It was also weird how he invented that song.
At the beginning of the second Book of Samuel, in chapter 2, I couldn't help noticing how stupid the fight looked. "2:14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise." Don't you think that sounds stupid?
Well, because this story has been so fun, I can't wait to see what happens in the rest of the second Book of Samuel. You can just be sure of one thing: I will be here to cover it! =)
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