The American Spectator
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Entertainment
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Amazon 's new series, House of David , takes a storyteller’s liberties in picking up the tale of the life of King David , set out in the Books of Samuel and Chronicles and augmented by the writings attributed to David in Psalms .
The Bible is so deeply embedded in our culture in the West that it is encrusted with cliches.
In Episode 1, Samuel charges Saul and Israel to fight Amalek and destroy them completely, leaving no one alive and destroying all their wealth.
It’s the perfect cliché of the violent Old Testament God and his sycophantic prophets, eager to justify merciless cruelty and bloodletting in the loftiest theological terms.
Samuel is human, passionate, wry, and devoted to God whom he knows directly enough to love and fear.
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