Show Notes
When Absalom's rebellion drove King David out of Jerusalem, an eighty-year-old landowner from Gilead did what almost no one else would. Barzillai met the exiled king at the Jordan with beds, grain, honey, curds, and sheep — enough to sustain hundreds of people — knowing that if the rebellion held, he would lose everything. Tonight's story follows Barzillai of Rogelim through David's flight from Jerusalem, the collapse of Absalom's kingdom in the forest of Ephraim, and the moment David offered him a place at the royal table in Jerusalem. He said no. He asked only to go home and be buried near his father and mother, and sent Chimham in his place. This is a slow, cinematic retelling drawn from Second Samuel chapters seventeen and nineteen, and First Kings chapter two, told for rest. No music swells, no dramatic turns — just a quiet story about faith that asks for nothing in return.
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