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Speculation based on the facts of scripture and research. That's what it took to create the story Anything for my King. Oftentimes, scripture leaves out many factual details. Missing details include what people were thinking and feeling, cultural things the original audience understood without being told, and logistics of how things were done. Yet these are the details needed for the storyteller to paint a vivid oral picture and bring the story to life. The job of the storyteller is to research and understand the story as much as possible, then add the missing details in a way that is consistent with the facts and the context of scripture. Anything for my King is based on just five verses and many details are missing. If you use this story as part of a sermon or for an in-depth Bible study, it may be important to identify the possibles of the story versus the provables. Here are the major facts and "facts" from Anything for my King. The following facts are provable from scripture and research: David hid from Saul in the caves near
Adullam and about 400 men who were "in distress or in debt or
discontented" joined up with him (I Samuel 22:1-2)
Three of the thirty chiefs of David's mighty men who were with him at the caves of Adullam broke through the Philistine lines at Bethlehem to bring David a drink of water (II Samuel 23:13-17 and I Chronicles 11:15-19). Adullam is approximately 12 to 15 miles from Bethlehem. The following "facts" are possible, but not provable: The three mighty men who went for the
water in II Samuel 23:13-17 are the same three mighty men listed in
verses 8-12.
Yoshev-Bashevet (Josheb-Basshebeth) is identified in verse 8 as "chief of
the Three," but we don't
know if he was one of the three migthy men in this adventure because
verse 13 simply refers to them as “three of the thirty chief men.”
The main character of Anything for my King was there when David killed Goliath and also fought with David in King Saul’s service. It's possible, but in no way provable,
that some of David's mighty men were in King Saul's army and that they
knew David before arriving at the caves of Adullam.
One side note. Yoshev-Bashevet is the Hebrew name for Josheb-Basshebeth in II Samuel 23:8. Since the English pronunciation is nearly as difficult as the Hebrew, I opted to use the Hebrew name. |
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