Wednesday Bible Study: Need for a disability rights movement

In Chapter 5 David becomes king of Israel and establishes his capital in Jerusalem, so it ' s definitely a pivotal moment in the imaginary history. (As I ' ve said before the truth is that at the time these events purportedly happened, Jerusalem was at most a small village.) However, I have to say he doesn ' t do any of it in a nice way. He already has at least 7 wives but he takes several more, we aren ' t told exactly how many. Funny thing about that -- Deuteronomy 17:17:The king must not take many wives for himself, because they will turn his heart away from the LORD. And he must not accumulate large amounts of wealth in silver and gold for himself. Oh well, who cares what that old fart Moses had to say.  As to the next point I ' m going with the Revised Standard Version which is consistent with other translations, whereas the NIV tries to clean this up a bit. The blind and the lame are " hated by David ' s soul. " He orders his men to attack them specifically in the conquest of Jerusalem, and they " shall not come into the house. " So there you have it, all ye who live according to the moral instruction of the Bible. As for the rest of it, it ' s just the usual God helping Israel smite the Philistines. 5 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led out and brought in Israel; and theLord said to you, ‘You shall be shephe...
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