Whither Malchut Welcome to our twenty-second in a continuing series on the book of Shmuel or Samuel and the founding of Jewish monarchy. Episode 22 The betrayals This chapter (19) begins to overtly express Shaul’s desire to kill David at the same time as those closest to Shaul including his daughter and mentor conspire to help Shaul’s enemy. We continue the motif of Shaul as Lavan and explain why Shaul didn’t simply have David killed at night in his bed. We note the parallel between our story of a king sending 3 waves of messengers to are unable to bring back the person the king wants because they have been spiritually elevated with the story of Oneklos the convert. For more on the pattern of Aggadot which are covertly sourced in Tanakh see our series, A Twice Told Tale on the retelling of Tanakh in the Aggadah. Lastly, we wonder why Psalm 59 is the first time chronologically that David makes a direct reference to life events from the book of Samuel. 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