- What was the “realpolitik” motivation for David to move his home from Hevron to Jerusalem?
- When is the first time the Bible uses the word “Zion”?
- What might the “lame and the blind” refer to?
- Compare the fact that David took many concubines and wives while in Jerusalem with Devarim 17:17. How do you make sense of the potential problem between these two texts?
- Compare David’s behavior in the heat of battle to that of Saul’s in I Samuel 13:12.
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