Tonight on the ABC Of Kings and Prophets airs with an all new Tuesday March 8, season 1 premiere called “Offerings of Blood.” On tonight’s episode, in the premiere, King Saul (Ray Winstone) arranges a strategic marriage for his daughter Merav, (Jeanine Mason) which he hopes will unify the 12 Israelite tribes against the Philistines; and, in the midst of the wedding preparations, Prophet Samuel (Mohammad Bakri) brings him a message from God: destroy the Amalekites.
An epic biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of the battle-weary King Saul, the resentful prophet Samuel and the resourceful young shepherd David — all on a collision course with destiny that will change the world. One thousand years before Christ, the first king of the Israelites, Saul, struggles to unify the 12 Israelite tribes and defend his fledgling nation against savage enemy attacks.
The prophet Samuel relays a message from God to King Saul that he must destroy one of Israel’s ancient enemies. But when Saul defies that message, Samuel prophesies that the Lord will tear the kingdom of Israel from him and choose another in his place. In time, Saul comes to realize that his greatest threat will not come from his enemies, but from the shepherd, David.
On tonight’s episode as per the ABC synopsis, “in the premiere, King Saul arranges a strategic marriage for his daughter Merav, which he hopes will unify the 12 Israelite tribes against the Philistines; and, in the midst of the wedding preparations, Prophet Samuel brings him a message from God: destroy the Amalekites. In other events, the shepherd David travels to the King’s palace in Gibeah in hopes of settling his family’s debts.”
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Long before David’s father had even mentioned his flock, David had had a dream about it. He dreamt that he was standing in a field of dead sheep and that there had been nothing he could do. So to challenge that dream, David had told his father that he needn’t bother with trying to get his older brother home from the war in order to hunt the beast that attacks their flock. He said he could it defend it and that his father wouldn’t be flogged for his failings.
But the flock was still attacked. Along with many of David’s neighbors so he later went to the market again short on his taxes and the kings’ men were going to flog him for it. That is until the princess saw what was about to happen and intervened.
Princess Michael had wanted to know why the young man was being flogged and, when she heard that elements had been about outside of his control, she told all that were willing to listen that he shouldn’t be punished for the lion attacking his flock. However, her mother the queen did believe that David should receive punishment because it was his job as the shepherd to protect the flock from everything. Including a lion that no one themselves had witnessed.
So David then came up with his own idea. He said that he would hunt down the lion in lieu of payment for both his father as well as his neighbors’ debts. And Anohim had agreed to the proposal, but she warned David about what would happen if he failed to catch the lion.
Anohim had been stern with David however there had been more happening at that time than one lion. The queen and her husband King Saul were marrying their daughter Merav to Mattiyahu. A son of Judah whose marriage to Merav was going to finally unite all twelve tribes of Israel.
Although, before the marriage could take place, the King had gone to the prophet Samuel for blessings on his family and the marriage. And the prophet had told him that there was only thing stopping him from actually receiving that blessing. Samuel had told King Saul that god wanted him to make war on the Amalekites even though the people were not threats to Saul’s people and hadn’t been threats since they had attacked during Moses’s time.
Only how was Saul supposed to deny the will of god. So he prepared his men and his sons for war yet he had asked for something from Mattiyahu. He asked that Mattiyahu divert one of its shipments of iron that would have gone to the Philistines to him.
And while Mattiyahu naturally had misgivings, he agreed to Saul’s proposal because of his relationship with Merav. A relationship that had begun as a part of an alliance that had developed into something real. So Mattiyahu had done as he was asked and he showed up late for meeting in Gath. The capital of Philistine.
However, the Philistines had heard about his upcoming marriage and they had suspected the real reason why their shipment had been late. Thus Mattiyahu and his escort had been murdered as punishment for their alliance. And Mattiyahu had personally been sent back to Saul so that the king knew his alliance with Judah was over.
So Saul’s sons wanted to place blame, but Saul stopped them. He said they didn’t the iron because they have always made do with God’s favor. Therefore, he believed that was all they needed in their war against the Amalekites and so he took his people to war without any additional weapons.
And Saul was successful. His army took on the Amalekites and they nearly slaughtered every man, woman, and child but then something stopped him from killing the king of the Amalekites. Apparently Saul had grown tiresome of the bloodshed that god had demanded and had instead decided to let his rival king live. So that he may be whipped in front of Saul’s people as lesson to those that would defy their king.
Not the Lord, their king!
A difference that Saul’s sons had tried to point out to him because the prophet had said that every single Amalekite was to die, but Saul didn’t want to hear it. He had placed his will above the Lord. And later he told Samuel that the God he believed in wouldn’t have sanctioned the murder of women and children.
But the prophet told the king that God could make and unmake him if his will was not followed. So Saul stood firm on his position and Samuel ended up killing the rival king the Amalekite king himself.
Afterwards, though, Samuel told Saul one last prophecy. He told Saul that he would lose his throne and that another would be raised in his place. Only Saul hadn’t wanted to believe that prophecy and even as he met his new harpist that just so happened to be stringing his instrument on Saul’s throne – the newly returned David who had been rewarded a position at court for killing the lion – Saul still didn’t want to believe.
Yet, there was nothing God could have done to have made his message clearer.
THE END!
