Proper 9 - Year B

Proper 9 Year B

The paradoxes of power. David bided his time, refused to lift up his hand against God’s anointed (though he knew himself to be anointed also), and then at last became king in a further anointing. The move to Jerusalem was politically shrewd (though obscured by the omission of verses 6–8): one of the last unconquered strongholds, it gave David a new capital independent of earlier tribal memories, as well as a victory which, completing Joshua’s work, sealed David’s royal vocation in the public eye…