NOTES for Ch1 15:29

It is interesting: what Michal saw that forced her to look at David from the top down, not only in the literal sense, but also in the figurative? We would have been able of course to explain everything by the peculiarities of the early prophetic religiosity, which was appropriate for David. Its external manifestations really looked strange sometimes and not very presentable: here and the stormy ecstasies, and sometimes slurred speech, and much again that the external did not connect too much to the rules of good behavior, especially if to all which have been enumerated we add that at the moments of the prophetic ecstatic dance the prophets tore rather often clothes from the top (and sometimes not only from the top).

But is the problem only in this? One could, for example remember again that generally in those days prophets were seen as particular and extraordinary people, and on the other hand and strange, such that the prophet and the madman were sometimes denoted by the same word. And here is, one could already speak here not only about the time of David, but also about any other time.

Of course, neither Michal, nor nobody else would say in those days nothing against the yahvisme, such an intervention would appear, at least out of place, and not because the yahvism was at those days a State religion, but simply because going against the yahvism would mean going against his own people. Every normal and decent person had then to be yahvist, and of course in the Jewish community. But, even in spite of the religious ascent connected with the relatively recent ended war, the religiosity in "a polite community" was encouraged "in the reasonable limits".

David, of course now belonged in particular to "the polite community", he could not already allow any more himself to be simply the prophet, who he was before. Here is, only David himself thinks otherwise, he feels himself prophet in the first place, and king - in the second. And that is exactly why he becomes a good king. Because, any society can be decent without quotation marks only in case every member of this society will learn to listen and hear God. Without taking into account any "decency" and any "measure".