Yikes! What a filthy book! Right full of Moronic barbarian CRAP!
"For downright maliciousness you will have to go a long way to encounter another similar instance of gaining tribute. In other words, David practiced a method of blackmail. "Pay me not to commit trespass upon your property" is in substance what David demanded. A fine code of ethics does this story of the Bible teach!
Samuel 1, Chapter 25, Verse 9.
9. And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words into the name of David, and ceased.
Here is a difficult situation. Here is an honest man with valuable possessions approached by messengers of an arch bandit and blackmailer demanding tribute for immunity from pillage. What would any courageous man maintain in the face of such an outrageous proposal. To-day we would notify the police, but unfortunately at that time the institution of law and government was not so far advanced. Our present code is, "millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." No doubt Nabal thought of the same thing, and rightly too; for he answers David's men as follows.
Samuel 1, Chapter 25, Verses 10-11.
10. And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants nowadays that break away every man from his master.
11. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
Was there ever a more unjust demand and was there ever a more justified refusal than the utterance just recorded of Nabal? Nabal was not only justified in what he said; it was his duty as a man to refuse to acquiesce to the banditry of David. The following is of deep significance and I bid you to read carefully."
Joseph Lewis |
