Whither Malchut Welcome to our sixteenth in a continuing series on the book of Shmuel or Samuel and the founding of Jewish monarchy. Episode 16 We seek to plumb the depths of the exceedingly rich chapter 14 including noting how Yonatan's approach to basically everything is the inverse of Shaul. This leads us to another example of our Twice Told Tale series wherein we compare chapter 14 to the story in the talmud of Dama ben Netina. Next we point out the historical curiosity of the British using the geography of our perek to combat the Ottoman Turks in WWI. Additional topics include comparing Yonatan and Shimshon an excursus on the Urim v'Tummim and a discussion of David Jobling's reading of Yonatan as essentially a junior David to serve as the transition from Shaul to David All this and more. Thank you for joining us, I hope you enjoy this podcast and will consider sharing it with others. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/isaacson/support