{"id":392,"date":"2020-10-08T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=392"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:35:11","slug":"king-david-and-monarchy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/10\/08\/king-david-and-monarchy-4\/","title":{"rendered":"King David and Monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In class, we started out with the topic of David and Goliath. This story is definitely one of the more notable stories from the Bible, and many learned about it from a young age. As the Israelites and the Phillistines were at war, they sent their greatest warrior, Goliath, to fight. As a kid, I imagined that he was this huge giant up against a little kid, David. I remember how cool it was that David killed Goliath with simply a stone (and also beheading him, but obviously they never taught us that) and then he later become King. It was an inspiring story of an \u201cunderdog\u201d rising up and defeating a great big warrior. \u201cHe\u2019s big, but God\u2019s bigger!\u201d I remember the Veggie Tales episode of the story. It\u2019s interesting to think that we\u2019re not sure if the reign of David happened, or if he even existed. I have never questioned this before, but being in this class has presented many other things that we question the historicity of, like the Exodus. It\u2019s good that we have the tools to research and find evidence to find whether these things actually happened or not. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class, we started out with the topic of David and Goliath. This story is definitely one of the more notable stories from the Bible, and many learned about it from a young age. As the Israelites and the Phillistines were at war, they sent their greatest warrior, Goliath, to fight. As a kid, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196874,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}