Concerning 2 Samuel 11:14-17, 2 Samuel 23:8 and 2 Samuel 23:39. Then, imagining
Uriah the Hittite’s last day of loyal service to the Lord G-d and King David:
As men, set ‘round Uriah, slunk deftly away
and enemy arrows struck sinews and veins,
could these have stung more than being betrayed
by wife, by his king, by commander that day?
Images from life flashed as his blood drained,
of when the psalmist slew Saul’s anger with praise.
And he chose to remember, amongst his last thoughts,
how David loved Jonathan—yet a comrade forgot!
“Wash me with hyssop” echoed in the ebb.
“How long would the ruler yet live to repent?”
He half-smiled to recall what a prophet once said,
“King David in trust counts you his ‘Thirty-seventh’.”
Uriah the Hittite’s last day of loyal service to the Lord G-d and King David:
As men, set ‘round Uriah, slunk deftly away
and enemy arrows struck sinews and veins,
could these have stung more than being betrayed
by wife, by his king, by commander that day?
Images from life flashed as his blood drained,
of when the psalmist slew Saul’s anger with praise.
And he chose to remember, amongst his last thoughts,
how David loved Jonathan—yet a comrade forgot!
“Wash me with hyssop” echoed in the ebb.
“How long would the ruler yet live to repent?”
He half-smiled to recall what a prophet once said,
“King David in trust counts you his ‘Thirty-seventh’.”
