From Saul's failure to David's reckoning, 'Human Kingship' examines the dangers of power - review

Nathan the prophet walks into David’s palace, tells the king to his face that he has murdered a man and taken his wife, and walks out again, leaving him on the throne. Punishment follows, and it is severe. The child dies. The sword, David is told, will never depart from his house. But nothing touches his hold on the…

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