Finished: Feb. 4
Notes: As I just finished The First Book of Samuel, I thought I'd continue on here.
Mini review: This continues with David's life, leading into his old age but not quite to his death. Here can be found more beheadings and rapes and slaughters than any Sword & Sorcery story I've ever read, but most of this wasn't brought about by David himself, though he seems to have been a great war general. And despite his being loved by God, David is not perfect and sins in awful ways, though he and his people pay for it even after David shows contrition. In many ways, David's biggest faults are his loyalty to his family, no few of whom try to overthrow him or murder him and who do awful things sometimes even to each other. It is interesting to see the ancient writers of this book did not shy away from showing the hero, David, in a negative light when he deserved it.
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