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But it turns out we've been fascinated by and have drawn inspiration from. kings from all of our history, even when we hated them the most. Here with another story is Rabbi Stuart Halburn to Take it away, Stuart. We all know that if America stands against one thing, it is, of course, the monarchy. As the Declaration of Independence states, the history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having a direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.
In other words, The entire enterprise was standing strongly for liberty and freedom against a tyrannical monarch.
However, there is in fact a particular king, a biblical king, who has inspired the country from its very inception to today. David. Biblical Israel was surrounded by its years-long antagonists, the Philistines, who wanted to crush its spirit and defeat its people. All of the soldiers of Israel were afraid to take on the warrior Goliath, who stood tall representing the Philistine army and dared any Israelite to come forward and to fight him. This Philistine giant made a wager and said, If anyone comes to defeat me, then my people will serve your people.
But if we defeat you, then you are going to all belong to us. And so to this scene arises a young boy. And he says, how is it that this person cursing and teasing our God and our people? No one has arisen to take him on. David is a caste.
And so he volunteers himself. And King Saul. Who should in theory have been the one to take on this giant as the leader of his people, lends the young teenage David his armor. But David is so small that the armor is too heavy and too big. and you cannot put it on.
and so instead, without any protection whatsoever, David goes empty-handed except for of course. Histling. Oh. And David fires an immortal shot from his sling. felling the giant, striking him directly on his head.
slaying him, granting Israel its victory over the Philistines. This story has become a metaphor for any time someone small takes on someone big and defeats it. Not surprisingly, the colonists. saw themselves. as mirroring the unlikely heroism.
of David. Just like David barely measured up to the ankle of the Philistine giant, America was infinitely smaller. Then it's enemy. There were roughly eleven million citizens. Of the British Empire at the time, and about 2.5 million citizens in the American colonies, a four-to-one advantage of England over us.
The British military had a three to one advantage. Their navy boasted 270 ships, the largest in the world, and the colonies had no navy at all until 1775. Britain's GDP was 10 times larger than that of the colonies, and the colonies had no munitions factories, few foundries, and relied on smuggling and captured British gear. to arm themselves. Americans were constantly short of gunpowder, uniforms, shoes, and food.
They were as bereft of equipment as David heading out without the armor of King Saul. Simply put, Americans were at an extreme disadvantage, and it is no shock. to think that their victory, our victory in fact. was as unlikely, as miraculous, and as blessed by God as that of the young shepherd. It was the prayer of America's earliest citizens that this story would be retold in their own day.
In fact, Congress in May of 1779, as the Revolutionary War dragged on, issued a statement trying to inspire. the weary citizens of the nascent nation. They offered a remarkable analogy. They said as follows. America, without arms, ammunition, discipline, revenue, government, or ally, almost totally stripped of commerce.
and in the weakness of youth. as it were with a staff and sling only. Dared in the name of the Lord of hosts to engage a gigantic adversary, prepared at all points, boasting of his strength, and of whom even mighty warriors were greatly afraid. In other words, Congress saw itself as attempting to imitate the courage of David. And cited his story to galvanize all Americans to rise up, stiffen their backs, strengthen their muscles, and take on the mightier.
Thumb. And this was not in fact the only time that David had been turned to during these battles. John Witherspoon, who taught James Madison before he became president, wondered in a 1776 sermon: Has not the boasted discipline of regular and veteran soldiers of the British? Been turned into confusion and disarray before the new and maiden courage of free men in defense of their property and right. In other words, citing too the story of David and the newfound strength that all of Israel had.
When they saw their champion defeat the Philistine Giants, he too was trying to galvanize the American collective spirit.
Now, this was not a simple analogy. David was actually this malleable, fascinating figure so rich in metaphors throughout the early decades of America. Before the colonists agreed to take on the forces of King George III, they wrestled with the ethics of whether God would be okay with them taking on a king. And so they of course turned to the story of David for insight. In a sequel that is less studied than the famous story of David versus Goliath.
They saw that, in fact, David does not immediately assume the throne of Israel after defeating the Philistine giant. King Saul was still seated on the throne, even after the giant had been slayed by the young shepherd. And so seeing this story, what the colonists remember was that there were a couple of moments in the book of Samuel. We're David. could have actually assassinated Saul.
and at this point in the biblical tale. God had already given his imprimatur to David as the leader of Israel. And yet David knew. To coin a phrase, you take a shot at the king, you best not miss.
Now that wasn't exactly how he phrased it. That would be Omar from the wire. But the spirit remains the same. David knew that to take on God's anointed was no small matter. And so he chose actually not to.
even though he had the opportunity not once but twice. And so seeing this tail, and thinking this through against George III's predecessor, King George II. The colonists at that time, before the revolution, decided not to revolt yet because they knew how big of a deal it would be and how perhaps questionable from a biblical perspective such action would be in the eyes of God.
Now, it wasn't only David's story. that served as a wellspring of wisdom for the American project. It was also his family.
Now, David led a very complicated and complex life. and his family struggles were harsher and tougher and longer than anything you've ever watched. on even a 24-part TV show. of a family drama on Amazon Prime or Netflix. He had a son.
who rebelled against. That son's name was Absalom. Absalom was unique in the Bible. Unlike most characters that we know about, we actually know about how he looked. Mind you, we have no clue.
Did Abraham have a beard? Was Isaac bald? Did Jacob have a goatee? Probably not, but we do know. that Absalom Had very, very long hair.
The Bible goes out of its way to tell us about his long locks.
Now, why is this important? Because initially, Absalom actually defeats David and usurps the throne from the rightful king of Israel, his own father. But eventually, Absalom's forces are defeated by David's, and David reclaims his throne. And as Absalom is fleeing the scene, he's caught by his long hair in a tree. And Absalom is actually assassinated when he is held in place by the branches around which his hair has been wrapped.
and David at that point old and frail, weary. His destiny. Even though his son had sinned. and taken what was rightfully his, namely the throne of ancient Israel. David did not want to see his son harmed, let alone killed.
And in a very striking literal image of this story. There is an incredible work of art woven. during the revolutionary era. Faith Robinson Trumbull of Lebanon, Connecticut embroidered a work of art known as the Hanging of Absalom in the lead up to the American Revolution. And she depicted this episode with Absalom being slaughtered.
In this metaphor, Absalom actually represented the colonists, and it was the frail British king not paying enough attention to what was going on around him. Who wasn't in control? That elder David was a stand-in for King George III. In other words, in this instance, it was the son of David, the rebellious son of David, who actually represented the colonial struggle against the British.
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Let's return to the story. Stuart now turns to King David's grandson. Rohebo. Like many politicians who tend to appoint, well, Seasoned State Department officials, but also their friends to positions of power. While Rehoboam, who was the grandson of David, the son of the wise King Solomon, He himself was not so what?
He actually levied a tax. very harsh tags on his subjects, the kingdom of Israel. And the people, not surprisingly, didn't like, well, let's call it taxation without representation. And so they turned to the king and complained, and said, Why are you taxing us so harshly? And like many politicians.
Rehobam turned to two different groups of advisors, those seasoned political folks who have served many years in the civil service. and his punkish former teenage friends. And the wise political advisor said, Well, you should lighten the load, O king, because if you don't, your kingdom might rebel against you and might fracture. But his young friends, his inexperienced friends, his unwise friends said, actually, I think you should flex. really squeeze them get every drop you can from those people because you're the big man on campus And they aren't.
And sure enough, Rehobaum listened to those young friends. and he squeezed the people and he oppressed them and he eternized them. The kingdom of Israel split because of it. What's fascinating is that the Americans saw this split of the kingdom of Israel into two kingdoms, the kingdom of Judah, containing two of the 12 biblical tribes, and the kingdom of Israel, containing the remaining 10 tribes. as mirroring their own story, their own breaking away from the British kingdom.
Just like Rehoba railed a sermon by Peter Whitney in Massachusetts on September 12, 1776, King George III rejected the counsel of the old men and followed the impolitic advice of his young mates. We need not wonder that the ten tribes of Israel Fall off from the house of David. Yeah. Of course, he was referring to the Thirteen Colonies falling off from the House of England.
Now, this was not a one-sided biblical wellspring. the British actually strikingly sensed that maybe they had a little bit of Goliath in them. And so there's an incredible record of a British Methodist minister named John Fletcher, who in 1776, kind of an important year. warrant that while the Americans might not necessarily be behaving themselves, They were David. and his fellow Brits were in danger of falling.
like the Philistine giant. If the colonists throng to the houses of God, while we throng playhouses or houses of ill fame, if they crowd their communion tables, while we crowd the gaming table, if they pray while we curse, if they fast while we get drunk, if they shelter under the protection of heaven, while our chief attention is turned to our hired troops, We are in danger, in great danger. A youth that believes and prays as David is a match for a giant that swaggers and curses as Goliath. British knew all along. that they will be struck.
squarely in the forehead. and with far. and over them would stand the young, exuberant, victorious. New Biblical Israel. The United States.
of America.
Now, David's story did not end there. In fact, it would continue for decades more. In his second inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln famously said that both sides the Civil War, that is, read the same Bible and pray to the same God. And so, it's not a surprise. that both the North and South wanted to pick up the mantle.
of the spiritual and military biblical giant that was kingdom. And we're worried. in fact, if the other side was actually David in disguise. The North Carolinian Presbyterian minister Joseph Atkinson was a bit worried, a bit concerned, that Stonewall Jackson, the incredible Confederate general, might be a modern-day slingshotting shepherd boy. When we come to our own day, he preached, may we not hope that Jackson, the Christian hero, the man of piety and prayer, with a fervency of spirit like David's, in a sanctuary.
and a martial order like David's in the field. has been graciously given us as the interpreter and personation of the Christian element and the Christian consciousness of this grand conflict? Reading the Hebrew biblical story through his eyes as a Christian, he of course saw David as a hero to his own faith. And he was worried that this southern hero, Stonewall Jackson, was in fact imitating the Shepherd. The North In turn, saw Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, as being like that rebellious son, Absalom.
They thought he was stepping out of line and out of bounds and would eventually be hanged on his own Tatari. There can be no glory in this war, Boston-based Baptist minister Daniel Eddy preached.
However, it may result in whatever brilliant deeds may be done by those in the north. Our great nation at its close will weep as David did over Absalom. It is our own blood that is flowing. The last we see of Absalom the traitor and the usurper he is hanging on an oak.
So perish all traitors, and for the good of the country, and the honor of humanity, and the glory of God, the sooner they perish, the better. But he knew that it would be a bittersweet victory. He knew, just like David, he was brokenhearted over the rebellion of his son and his subsequent death. He wanted to embrace even those who had broken away. He wanted to bring them back in.
He wanted to welcome Epsalom back into the family fold.
So too the North wished. could embrace the South. and become family once again. But it knew in the meantime, Until that moment, what needed to be done needed to be done. This Absalom needed to be asleep.
In a remarkable ending. to this period in American history. we have a incredible reflection. of President Lincoln himself's knowledge. of the story of David.
Now I mentioned a few moments ago. that David at first was losing. his battle against Absalom and actually had to leave Jerusalem, the holy city.
Well, on his way out, there was a heckler. I know it might be hard to believe in this age of social media that as major world events are going on, someone felt compelled to just be a jerk. and to add their two cents and to dunk on whoever was losing at that moment. This, of course, cannot possibly resonate at all. I mean, no one does this.
But of course, I say this in jest because being cynical and teasing someone in their most vulnerable moment is a talis all this time. And so there was a fellow, Shimmi the son of Gaver, and Shimmy teased and cursed David as he fled. headbowed from Jerusalem. David at the time did not look up, did not fight him, because he was in retreat. trying to survive against the forces of Absalom.
But how did Shimmy's story end up?
Well It ended up being an incredible lesson taught by no less than Abraham Lincoln himself. Lincoln, it seems, as recorded by his friend Joseph Gillespie. was asked what to do with the defeated South.
Well, Gillespie recounts his friend Lincoln musing, Some think their heads ought to come off. But there are too many of them for that, said Lincoln. And for one, I would not know where to draw the line between those whose heads, it might be said, ought to come off. or stay on. My policy would be different, the President continued.
I would prefer to follow the example of King David. I have been recently reading the history of the rebellion of Absalom, Lincoln said. and would be inclined to adopt the views of David. When David was fleeing from Jerusalem, Shimmy cursed him. After the rebellion was put down, Shimmy craved a pardon.
Abishai, David's nephew, the son of Tseruiah, David's sister, said, This man ought not to be pardoned because he cursed the Lord's anointed. David said, What I have to do with you, you sons of Turiah, that you should do this, that you should this day be adversaries unto me. Know ye that not a man shall be put to death. Israel. In other words, David, when he could have, stepped on the necks of his enemies.
Shimi's side had lost. And yet. An eight. Open-hearted, magnanimous, embracing way, sought not to take revenge in that moment against the side that lost.
So, too, President Lincoln. embraced in a spirit of reconciliation. the defeated South and sought until its tragic dying day. To reunite America in a spirit of family and unification that was powered by no less than the ancient prophet King David. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery.
And a special thanks to Stuart Helpern. He's the co-author of The Jewish Roots of American Liberty. Go to Amazon, go to your local library, wherever you can get this book. Pick it up. Because it's replete with references and stories from our founding right up to the Civil War and beyond.
Of how the Old Testament informed Well, so many generations of Americans, as much so as the New Testament. The story of the Jewish Roots of American Liberty. And America's obsession with King David here on Our American Stories. The official language of football is trash talk, late night group chats, memes, and unbelievable highlight clips. That's why Boost Mobile brings you our new global connection plan.
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