1 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,826 Wait here. 2 00:02:06,921 --> 00:02:08,296 Lord Commander. 3 00:02:08,464 --> 00:02:10,622 - Well? - The king is not in his tent. 4 00:02:10,842 --> 00:02:13,415 - Not in his tent? - No, sir. 5 00:02:13,636 --> 00:02:16,506 Well, he must be somewhere. Have you searched the camp? 6 00:02:16,722 --> 00:02:19,259 Yes, sir. I have brought the aide you assigned to him. 7 00:02:19,433 --> 00:02:21,721 I think the man knows something. 8 00:02:26,190 --> 00:02:28,348 That is the man, sir. 9 00:02:30,361 --> 00:02:32,068 You were assigned to attend the king? 10 00:02:32,238 --> 00:02:34,479 - Yes, sir. - Where did he go? 11 00:02:34,699 --> 00:02:36,821 Sir, I... I cannot tell you. 12 00:02:37,034 --> 00:02:39,441 As your commander I order you to tell me. 13 00:02:39,662 --> 00:02:41,784 The king pledged me to silence. 14 00:02:41,997 --> 00:02:43,455 Where is he? 15 00:02:43,666 --> 00:02:45,954 He went with the scouting party. 16 00:02:46,168 --> 00:02:48,326 Scouting party? 17 00:02:49,922 --> 00:02:51,120 What scouting party? 18 00:02:51,298 --> 00:02:54,998 Every night, sir, we send out small patrols to test the walls of the city. 19 00:02:55,219 --> 00:02:56,250 And tonight? 20 00:02:56,470 --> 00:02:58,462 Tonight, the waterway under the north wall. 21 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,723 A patrol of 20 men under Captain Uriah. 22 00:03:03,769 --> 00:03:06,722 - You let him go? - I could not stop him, sir. 23 00:03:06,939 --> 00:03:08,812 We had finished the dispatches. 24 00:03:09,024 --> 00:03:12,143 The king stood in the mouth of the tent as the patrol went by. 25 00:03:12,361 --> 00:03:13,605 He looked after them... 26 00:03:13,821 --> 00:03:16,572 ...and suddenly he took up a sword and followed them. 27 00:03:16,782 --> 00:03:18,858 Take 100 of your best men and go after them. 28 00:03:19,034 --> 00:03:20,362 Sir. 29 00:03:21,537 --> 00:03:22,995 - To arms, men. - King. 30 00:03:23,163 --> 00:03:24,822 Ira's hundred. To arms. 31 00:03:24,998 --> 00:03:27,204 King of all Israel out there in the darkness... 32 00:03:27,376 --> 00:03:29,783 ...exposing himself to the enemy... 33 00:03:30,003 --> 00:03:33,834 ...crawling on his belly like a common soldier. 34 00:04:19,344 --> 00:04:20,968 Attack. 35 00:04:53,961 --> 00:04:55,918 Sire, I am the commander of the army. 36 00:04:56,130 --> 00:04:57,956 - My orders... - Yes, I know. 37 00:04:58,132 --> 00:05:01,085 We'll speak of it later. Come in, Uriah. 38 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,426 I apologize for delaying your supper. 39 00:05:09,644 --> 00:05:12,265 Sit down, Uriah. 40 00:05:12,938 --> 00:05:14,645 Pour us some wine. 41 00:05:14,857 --> 00:05:16,351 Sit down. 42 00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:22,647 Sire. 43 00:05:22,865 --> 00:05:24,489 - Hmm? - You are wounded. 44 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:27,736 - Let me call the physician. - No, no, let it alone. 45 00:05:27,953 --> 00:05:30,029 It's a long time since I've shed any blood. 46 00:05:30,247 --> 00:05:32,998 It's good to have proof that it still runs in my veins. 47 00:05:34,418 --> 00:05:36,410 Sit down, Joab. 48 00:05:41,634 --> 00:05:44,753 We must decide on our strategy, for Rabbah is well defended. 49 00:05:44,970 --> 00:05:47,258 Unfortunately, there are no Joshuas among us… 50 00:05:47,431 --> 00:05:50,100 ...to command the walls to fall down. 51 00:05:53,062 --> 00:05:54,437 What would you do, Uriah? 52 00:05:54,605 --> 00:05:55,933 I can speak for them, sire. 53 00:05:56,106 --> 00:05:58,312 Every man in the army would be glad to die for David. 54 00:05:58,484 --> 00:06:00,891 A thousand dead, perhaps two. 55 00:06:01,111 --> 00:06:03,566 A thousand vineyards and flocks left untended. 56 00:06:03,780 --> 00:06:07,195 A thousand women wailing on my doorstep. 57 00:06:08,035 --> 00:06:09,529 You have a wife, Uriah? 58 00:06:09,745 --> 00:06:12,449 - Yes, sire. - She will come to my door in tears. 59 00:06:12,623 --> 00:06:13,785 If I am unlucky. 60 00:06:13,957 --> 00:06:15,285 No, it is a certainty. 61 00:06:15,459 --> 00:06:18,874 In wartime, the best are always the first to die. 62 00:06:19,671 --> 00:06:22,244 Then her tears will be tears of pride. 63 00:06:22,466 --> 00:06:26,166 You are young to know much of women and too brave, whereas I'm a coward. 64 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:27,417 A coward, sire? 65 00:06:28,805 --> 00:06:31,474 My men go into battle singing an old song. 66 00:06:31,683 --> 00:06:35,134 "Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands." 67 00:06:35,353 --> 00:06:36,930 That was years ago. 68 00:06:37,147 --> 00:06:39,602 When I was captain of a hundred, like yourself. 69 00:06:39,816 --> 00:06:41,855 I was not the king. 70 00:06:42,152 --> 00:06:45,069 You will serve me better if you live, Uriah. 71 00:06:47,574 --> 00:06:49,151 Come, Joab. 72 00:06:49,367 --> 00:06:52,284 Remain seated. Continue with your meal. 73 00:06:56,291 --> 00:06:58,579 I will return to Jerusalem in the morning. 74 00:07:10,138 --> 00:07:15,927 Oh, King of Judah and Israel, live forever. 75 00:07:16,686 --> 00:07:21,846 The pharaoh of Egypt sends greetings to his beloved cousin. 76 00:07:22,066 --> 00:07:23,643 The pharaoh bids me... 77 00:07:23,860 --> 00:07:27,525 ...prostrate myself before the great king... 78 00:07:31,659 --> 00:07:36,486 ...and to present this humble token of Egypt's regard. 79 00:07:38,207 --> 00:07:41,575 The king of Israel warms himself in the sun of the pharaoh's regard. 80 00:07:52,305 --> 00:07:54,593 My beloved cousin, the pharaoh probably hopes... 81 00:07:54,765 --> 00:07:56,556 ...that I'll cut my throat with this. 82 00:07:56,726 --> 00:08:00,854 Nathan, the prophet of God. 83 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,692 May God walk with David. 84 00:08:10,906 --> 00:08:13,064 It is his custom to walk with Nathan. 85 00:08:13,284 --> 00:08:17,447 God looks with favor on you to bring the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem. 86 00:08:17,621 --> 00:08:18,652 Excellent. 87 00:08:18,831 --> 00:08:21,867 But as to your intention of building a temple to receive the Ark... 88 00:08:22,042 --> 00:08:23,749 ...he has commanded me to say this to you. 89 00:08:24,712 --> 00:08:26,254 Thus speaks the Lord: 90 00:08:26,422 --> 00:08:29,625 "Should my servant David build me a house to dwell in. 91 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,299 For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought the Israelites... 92 00:08:33,470 --> 00:08:37,052 ...up out of Egypt, even to this day, but I have lived in a tent. 93 00:08:37,266 --> 00:08:39,342 Have I ever, in all these years... 94 00:08:39,518 --> 00:08:42,388 ...demanded that a temple be built for me? 95 00:08:42,604 --> 00:08:44,762 Now therefore I say to 96 00:08:44,982 --> 00:08:48,350 'I took you from the pasture from guarding your sheep... 97 00:08:48,569 --> 00:08:51,688 ...to make you shepherd over my people, even over all Israel.'" 98 00:08:51,905 --> 00:08:52,984 Yes, yes. I understand. 99 00:08:53,156 --> 00:08:56,192 God sees no need of a temple, is that it? 100 00:08:56,410 --> 00:08:57,489 That is his word. 101 00:08:57,703 --> 00:09:00,194 Very well. I leave such decisions to you. 102 00:09:00,414 --> 00:09:02,240 To God, sire. 103 00:09:02,457 --> 00:09:05,126 Whatever you like. You may take full charge... 104 00:09:05,335 --> 00:09:09,166 ...of the arrangements to bring the Ark here from Baal, Judah. 105 00:09:09,464 --> 00:09:11,503 My father... 106 00:09:12,092 --> 00:09:13,502 ...will you hear my petition? 107 00:09:13,718 --> 00:09:17,585 Amnon, my son, you need not beg for an audience. 108 00:09:17,806 --> 00:09:19,928 You promised me, as the heir to Israel... 109 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:24,228 ...all the vineyards north of the Mount of Olives as far as the borders of Ephraim... 110 00:09:24,396 --> 00:09:27,847 ...yet you have given the large vineyard on the Gibeon road to Absalom. 111 00:09:28,024 --> 00:09:29,055 Did I? 112 00:09:29,234 --> 00:09:32,437 Only last month you said it was mine, yet Amnon claims it. 113 00:09:32,612 --> 00:09:35,185 I demand only justice. 114 00:09:36,283 --> 00:09:38,192 And what does Absalom demand? 115 00:09:38,410 --> 00:09:39,654 Justice too. 116 00:09:41,121 --> 00:09:43,991 Then, no matter how I decide, I am unjust. 117 00:09:44,749 --> 00:09:46,540 The vineyard belongs to Amnon. 118 00:09:46,751 --> 00:09:49,076 Thank you, my father. 119 00:09:54,759 --> 00:09:56,585 Come with me. 120 00:10:02,809 --> 00:10:06,676 You must try to understand my problem. Amnon is the heir. He's been anointed. 121 00:10:06,854 --> 00:10:08,930 If it became known that I favored you... 122 00:10:09,107 --> 00:10:11,432 ...it would weaken him in the eyes of the people. 123 00:10:11,609 --> 00:10:14,230 We both know he needs all the strength we can give him. 124 00:10:14,404 --> 00:10:16,443 We both know he is not fit to be heir. 125 00:10:16,614 --> 00:10:18,238 That I cannot help. 126 00:10:18,408 --> 00:10:20,899 You could anoint me in his place. 127 00:10:21,077 --> 00:10:24,077 Even if I wanted to, I am bound by the law. 128 00:10:24,247 --> 00:10:28,244 With our people, the law is everything. It is in their bones. 129 00:10:28,501 --> 00:10:31,585 It's only one vineyard, Absalom. 130 00:10:31,796 --> 00:10:33,918 I'll give you your choice of my own holdings. 131 00:10:34,090 --> 00:10:36,627 I want only what is mine. 132 00:10:41,430 --> 00:10:43,588 Here. Take this. 133 00:10:44,016 --> 00:10:46,553 It is worth 20 vineyards. 134 00:11:01,951 --> 00:11:03,694 Michal. 135 00:11:04,828 --> 00:11:07,283 I did not expect to see you here. 136 00:11:07,498 --> 00:11:09,989 Does my presence displease the king? 137 00:11:10,167 --> 00:11:11,744 Of course not. 138 00:11:11,919 --> 00:11:13,329 You are always welcome. 139 00:11:13,504 --> 00:11:15,211 If the sight of me is so welcome... 140 00:11:15,381 --> 00:11:18,050 ...why haven't you come to my chamber since your return? 141 00:11:18,217 --> 00:11:19,296 I have much on my mind. 142 00:11:19,468 --> 00:11:21,959 Yet you found time to greet your other wives. 143 00:11:22,137 --> 00:11:26,466 I was the first and now I am the last. 144 00:11:26,642 --> 00:11:29,559 If you had been with the others I would have greeted you too. 145 00:11:29,728 --> 00:11:31,850 You remain aloof by your own choice. 146 00:11:32,022 --> 00:11:35,188 There was a time when you thought well of my aloofness. 147 00:11:37,236 --> 00:11:40,023 I make no objection to it now. 148 00:11:41,281 --> 00:11:42,940 Do as you please. 149 00:11:43,158 --> 00:11:45,364 How graciously... 150 00:11:46,119 --> 00:11:48,444 ...you give your royal approval. 151 00:11:48,622 --> 00:11:52,287 And your sarcasm is wasted. We both know that royalty is a fraud. 152 00:11:52,501 --> 00:11:54,659 It was no fraud when my father was king. 153 00:11:54,878 --> 00:11:58,293 I have never denied that Saul was every inch a king. 154 00:11:58,507 --> 00:12:01,875 And his successor every inch a fraud. 155 00:12:04,012 --> 00:12:06,633 I will not argue with that either. 156 00:12:09,267 --> 00:12:14,771 Do you think that hanging his spear on your wall... 157 00:12:15,857 --> 00:12:19,225 ...will make you royal? - Michal, please. 158 00:12:20,362 --> 00:12:22,769 I have messages to read. 159 00:12:22,989 --> 00:12:24,483 Oh. 160 00:12:24,657 --> 00:12:26,566 I understand. 161 00:12:27,619 --> 00:12:29,695 I am dismissed. 162 00:12:29,913 --> 00:12:33,661 The shepherd's son is dismissing the daughter of Saul. 163 00:12:34,751 --> 00:12:37,586 I am to go and sit with the concubines. 164 00:12:37,754 --> 00:12:40,458 They are my wives... 165 00:12:42,467 --> 00:12:44,708 ...and you are my wife. 166 00:12:44,928 --> 00:12:47,216 Is that not enough? 167 00:12:51,184 --> 00:12:53,556 Why did you marry me, David? 168 00:12:55,313 --> 00:12:57,020 Why? 169 00:12:57,899 --> 00:13:00,105 Because I loved you. 170 00:13:01,861 --> 00:13:03,734 You lie. 171 00:13:03,946 --> 00:13:07,030 You have never loved anyone but yourself. 172 00:13:07,241 --> 00:13:10,740 "David," meaning "beloved." 173 00:13:10,953 --> 00:13:13,278 - David, the beloved-of-David. - Whatever you say... 174 00:13:13,456 --> 00:13:16,741 My love was wasted. You had no need of it. 175 00:13:19,712 --> 00:13:22,416 Is your memory so short? 176 00:13:23,341 --> 00:13:26,045 I had great need of it once. 177 00:13:26,260 --> 00:13:30,174 I begged you on my knees, but you deserted me. 178 00:13:30,389 --> 00:13:33,093 You refused to follow me into exile. 179 00:13:33,476 --> 00:13:36,891 You even dishonored your vows and let your father marry you to another. 180 00:13:37,063 --> 00:13:39,055 - Against my will. - You can say so. 181 00:13:40,983 --> 00:13:45,526 But I cannot help thinking that real love would have fathered a stronger will. 182 00:13:45,738 --> 00:13:47,814 Then why did you take me back? 183 00:13:49,116 --> 00:13:50,195 You might have guessed. 184 00:13:57,791 --> 00:13:59,664 Without Saul's daughter at my side... 185 00:13:59,835 --> 00:14:03,085 ...the northern tribes would not have acknowledged me as king. 186 00:14:03,756 --> 00:14:05,298 By taking you back... 187 00:14:05,507 --> 00:14:08,080 ...I made Israel one. 188 00:14:13,140 --> 00:14:14,847 Michal... 189 00:14:15,893 --> 00:14:18,514 ...we're past the days of our passion... 190 00:14:18,687 --> 00:14:21,142 ...Iove or hatred or anguish, even cruelty. 191 00:14:21,356 --> 00:14:24,060 Why should we torture ourselves? 192 00:14:26,904 --> 00:14:29,774 We have to go on living, Michal. 193 00:16:29,358 --> 00:16:31,315 Abishai. 194 00:16:38,117 --> 00:16:41,367 There is a house over there... 195 00:16:41,578 --> 00:16:44,069 ...under that big terebinth tree. 196 00:16:44,289 --> 00:16:45,996 - You know it? - Yes, sire. 197 00:16:46,208 --> 00:16:49,125 - The house of Uriah the Hittite. - Uriah the Hittite. 198 00:16:49,336 --> 00:16:52,253 - He's a captain with the army. - Yes, I know him. 199 00:16:52,673 --> 00:16:54,914 Does he, by any chance, have a sister? 200 00:16:55,134 --> 00:16:57,340 No, sire. He has a wife. 201 00:16:57,553 --> 00:17:01,171 A Hebrew woman of Benjamin called Bathsheba. 202 00:17:02,432 --> 00:17:04,389 Bathsheba. 203 00:17:05,477 --> 00:17:07,054 During my visit to the army... 204 00:17:07,229 --> 00:17:10,728 ...this Uriah's gallantry was called to my attention. 205 00:17:10,941 --> 00:17:14,274 It's been in my mind to reward him. 206 00:17:15,696 --> 00:17:19,942 Perhaps, in his absence, his wife could accept the reward. 207 00:17:20,158 --> 00:17:23,776 - I'll send for the woman in the morning. - No. Send for her now. 208 00:17:23,954 --> 00:17:26,527 She shall dine with me tonight. 209 00:17:27,499 --> 00:17:29,538 Yes, sire. 210 00:17:33,004 --> 00:17:34,877 You're not eating. 211 00:17:35,549 --> 00:17:37,707 I dined earlier, sire. 212 00:17:37,884 --> 00:17:40,256 It is my custom when I am alone. 213 00:17:43,223 --> 00:17:45,760 As a soldier's wife, you have good reason... 214 00:17:45,934 --> 00:17:49,137 ...to hate the king who keeps your husband from your side. 215 00:17:49,312 --> 00:17:50,936 The king does what he must. 216 00:17:51,106 --> 00:17:53,513 His needs are the kingdom's. 217 00:17:53,692 --> 00:17:55,601 Not all of them. 218 00:18:00,073 --> 00:18:01,732 This wine is Phoenician. 219 00:18:01,950 --> 00:18:06,446 I find it mellower than ours. It has the blandness of the sea air. 220 00:18:06,830 --> 00:18:10,412 Have you ever visited the coast? 221 00:18:10,625 --> 00:18:11,656 No, sire. 222 00:18:11,876 --> 00:18:14,164 I lived for several years among the Philistines. 223 00:18:14,379 --> 00:18:16,952 A cold people like their sea. 224 00:18:17,674 --> 00:18:19,132 We Hebrews are of the desert. 225 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:22,135 We breathe its wind and our blood runs hot with it. 226 00:18:22,303 --> 00:18:24,461 Our emotions are fierce, like the desert wind. 227 00:18:24,639 --> 00:18:26,097 We worship our God fiercely... 228 00:18:26,265 --> 00:18:28,672 ...we love fiercely, we feel sorrow fiercely... 229 00:18:29,227 --> 00:18:32,845 ...even the lesser sorrows, like the absence of a loved one. 230 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,147 Has Uriah been away for long? 231 00:18:36,776 --> 00:18:39,183 We have been married seven months. 232 00:18:39,403 --> 00:18:42,024 Of this time, we have been together six days. 233 00:18:42,823 --> 00:18:44,862 A poor return on the hopes your betrothal. 234 00:18:45,034 --> 00:18:48,284 You are generous indeed not to hate me. 235 00:18:48,496 --> 00:18:50,702 I had no hopes, sire. 236 00:18:50,915 --> 00:18:52,872 I first saw Uriah on our wedding day... 237 00:18:53,042 --> 00:18:55,912 ...when my father brought me to his house. 238 00:18:56,295 --> 00:18:59,379 Then six days is the sum total of your love? 239 00:18:59,924 --> 00:19:03,755 Of our marriage, yes, sire. 240 00:19:24,531 --> 00:19:27,235 One of the vanities of kings is that they think virtue... 241 00:19:27,409 --> 00:19:29,401 ...can be rewarded with a bauble. 242 00:19:29,620 --> 00:19:33,202 How God must laugh at the spectacle of unvirtuous kings... 243 00:19:33,374 --> 00:19:37,667 ...hanging bits of rock and metal on virtuous men. 244 00:19:55,771 --> 00:19:58,012 That is for virtue. 245 00:20:15,373 --> 00:20:18,457 Now you understand why I sent for you. 246 00:20:20,337 --> 00:20:24,500 My understanding is not necessary, sire. 247 00:20:25,550 --> 00:20:26,712 Why not? 248 00:20:26,885 --> 00:20:28,842 You are the king. 249 00:20:29,262 --> 00:20:31,135 Is that all? 250 00:20:31,723 --> 00:20:33,596 Well, leave the king out of it. 251 00:20:33,767 --> 00:20:36,304 Think if any man would be content with such an answer. 252 00:20:36,478 --> 00:20:38,636 What other answer can I give, sire? 253 00:20:38,855 --> 00:20:42,804 You have sent for me and made known to me your will. 254 00:20:43,026 --> 00:20:45,563 What else is there for me to say? 255 00:20:48,823 --> 00:20:51,029 In Egypt that would be enough. 256 00:20:54,871 --> 00:20:59,034 There, the pharaoh has certain rights he can command but I... 257 00:20:59,208 --> 00:21:04,166 Even if I had the right I've never used my power to take anything by force. 258 00:21:05,673 --> 00:21:09,088 All that I have ever had has been given to me. 259 00:21:10,428 --> 00:21:13,049 Freely, without restraint. 260 00:21:13,222 --> 00:21:17,053 Even Israel. I refused the throne until every elder of every tribe... 261 00:21:17,226 --> 00:21:20,262 ...would come to me and beg me to take it. 262 00:21:21,731 --> 00:21:24,186 It's been a kind of pride. 263 00:21:24,358 --> 00:21:26,646 My pride. 264 00:21:27,486 --> 00:21:30,819 Never to force myself on anyone. 265 00:21:32,116 --> 00:21:33,859 So I said nothing to you. 266 00:21:34,035 --> 00:21:37,653 Until you told me that there is no love in your marriage. 267 00:21:40,291 --> 00:21:42,449 Yes, you told me that. 268 00:21:42,626 --> 00:21:44,285 And so did Uriah. 269 00:21:45,046 --> 00:21:49,043 His dream of glory is his wife in tears. 270 00:21:51,469 --> 00:21:53,378 You better go. 271 00:21:57,766 --> 00:21:59,141 Oh, no, keep that. 272 00:21:59,310 --> 00:22:02,429 It's only a stone but you lend it beauty. 273 00:22:05,190 --> 00:22:07,348 Uriah's a fool. 274 00:22:07,901 --> 00:22:10,985 When I looked on you from my terrace tonight... 275 00:22:11,155 --> 00:22:13,906 ...I knew that every future moment spent away from you... 276 00:22:14,074 --> 00:22:16,315 ...would be a moment lost. 277 00:22:16,493 --> 00:22:21,071 Yet he's found only six days for you in seven months. 278 00:22:21,248 --> 00:22:24,165 The perfume of his beloved is the stink of war. 279 00:22:24,334 --> 00:22:27,085 Does he think a man was made only for the agony of battle? 280 00:22:27,254 --> 00:22:30,872 Does he call that manhood? Has he no blood, no heart? 281 00:22:36,096 --> 00:22:37,922 Now go. 282 00:22:41,059 --> 00:22:43,680 And be thankful that I am not the pharaoh. 283 00:22:47,149 --> 00:22:50,352 At least I can console myself with the thought that your modesty... 284 00:22:50,527 --> 00:22:52,186 ...matches your beauty. 285 00:22:53,780 --> 00:22:56,531 Perhaps you would prefer truth to modesty, sire. 286 00:22:59,202 --> 00:23:01,989 Before you went away, I used to watch you every evening... 287 00:23:02,164 --> 00:23:04,203 ...as you walked on your terrace... 288 00:23:04,374 --> 00:23:08,323 ...always at the same hour, always alone. 289 00:23:08,503 --> 00:23:11,207 - Today, I heard you had returned. - Then you knew that I... 290 00:23:11,381 --> 00:23:14,168 That you would be on your terrace tonight. 291 00:23:14,342 --> 00:23:15,884 Yes. 292 00:23:16,553 --> 00:23:21,843 I had heard that never had the king found a woman to please him. 293 00:23:22,642 --> 00:23:25,014 I dared to hope that I might be that woman. 294 00:23:26,730 --> 00:23:29,221 Why are you telling me this now? Why not before? 295 00:23:29,399 --> 00:23:31,308 Because first... 296 00:23:31,484 --> 00:23:33,975 ...I had to know what was in your heart. 297 00:23:34,154 --> 00:23:36,645 If the law of Moses is to be broken, David... 298 00:23:36,823 --> 00:23:41,152 ...let us break it in full understanding of what we want from each other. 299 00:23:45,748 --> 00:23:49,413 No, please. I'm not finished. 300 00:23:51,421 --> 00:23:54,920 There are women you could send for and send away again. 301 00:23:55,133 --> 00:23:57,339 I am not one of them. 302 00:23:58,511 --> 00:24:00,587 What do you want? 303 00:24:00,763 --> 00:24:02,969 To please you. 304 00:24:03,307 --> 00:24:07,221 Have I not made it plain enough that you please me? 305 00:24:07,645 --> 00:24:10,729 I'll never send you away, if that is what you want. 306 00:24:10,898 --> 00:24:12,356 Never as long as I live. 307 00:24:12,525 --> 00:24:15,691 No, David. That is not all I want. 308 00:24:17,238 --> 00:24:19,693 Think not of this one night... 309 00:24:19,907 --> 00:24:23,110 ...but of all the days and all the nights to come. 310 00:24:23,285 --> 00:24:25,822 Think if I can give you what you need... 311 00:24:25,997 --> 00:24:28,369 ...for as long as you live... 312 00:24:28,791 --> 00:24:30,783 ...as your wife. 313 00:24:31,710 --> 00:24:34,082 But you're not free. 314 00:24:42,388 --> 00:24:44,012 If I were free? 315 00:24:45,975 --> 00:24:48,466 A king is not supposed to need anything. 316 00:24:48,978 --> 00:24:51,054 Only a fool would suppose that. 317 00:24:51,605 --> 00:24:53,264 Well, then... 318 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,191 ...friendship. 319 00:24:56,360 --> 00:25:00,357 I had a friend once, but I destroyed him. 320 00:25:00,531 --> 00:25:04,065 The others, who call themselves friends, I... 321 00:25:04,743 --> 00:25:05,987 I never see their eyes... 322 00:25:06,161 --> 00:25:09,612 ...only the tops of their heads as they bow to me. 323 00:25:09,790 --> 00:25:12,115 Their hands are extended to me... 324 00:25:12,292 --> 00:25:16,289 ...but palms upwards, for favors. 325 00:25:16,505 --> 00:25:19,292 Even my own sons. 326 00:25:21,301 --> 00:25:23,423 Will I see your eyes, Bathsheba? 327 00:25:25,931 --> 00:25:27,757 You will see them. 328 00:25:29,434 --> 00:25:32,351 And my hand will be in yours. 329 00:25:33,313 --> 00:25:35,886 That much is easy, David. 330 00:25:36,775 --> 00:25:39,562 I am only a man, Bathsheba. 331 00:25:39,736 --> 00:25:42,143 I need someone to understand that. 332 00:25:42,364 --> 00:25:44,819 I need the kind of understanding... 333 00:25:44,991 --> 00:25:48,406 ...that only one human being can give to another. 334 00:25:49,829 --> 00:25:52,995 I need someone to share my heart. 335 00:25:54,918 --> 00:25:58,333 The man I watched from my window is not the king... 336 00:25:58,505 --> 00:26:03,961 ...but a man whose heart is well worth the sharing. 337 00:26:42,882 --> 00:26:44,589 Oh, David. 338 00:26:55,019 --> 00:26:58,434 No, David. The boy, he'll see us. 339 00:26:59,273 --> 00:27:00,553 No matter. 340 00:27:00,733 --> 00:27:03,899 Shepherd boys learn early about life. 341 00:27:21,378 --> 00:27:23,454 Did you, David? 342 00:27:24,006 --> 00:27:25,464 Did I what? 343 00:27:25,633 --> 00:27:28,206 Learn about life early. 344 00:27:30,596 --> 00:27:31,627 Before I was 12... 345 00:27:31,805 --> 00:27:34,971 ...I knew almost everything there was to know about life... 346 00:27:35,517 --> 00:27:37,094 ...and death. 347 00:27:37,269 --> 00:27:39,391 At 12, I had killed wolves. 348 00:27:39,563 --> 00:27:41,306 At 13, a man. 349 00:27:41,482 --> 00:27:45,230 Tell me. Not about the killing. 350 00:27:45,402 --> 00:27:48,153 Tell me about the boy you were. 351 00:27:54,745 --> 00:27:57,366 It couldn't be of any interest to you. 352 00:28:00,250 --> 00:28:03,950 A woman is interested in everything about her man. 353 00:28:04,546 --> 00:28:07,665 Particularly in what he was before she knew him. 354 00:28:07,841 --> 00:28:10,248 Well, there's not much to tell. 355 00:28:10,552 --> 00:28:14,929 I was a shepherd like thousands of others in Judah. 356 00:28:20,854 --> 00:28:23,771 You slept out under the stars. 357 00:28:24,232 --> 00:28:25,476 Mmm. 358 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:29,685 Did you dream, David? 359 00:28:30,572 --> 00:28:31,770 What did you dream about? 360 00:28:33,992 --> 00:28:38,155 Surely a man is entitled to the privacy of his dreams. 361 00:28:38,330 --> 00:28:41,330 - Then they were of women. - Naturally. 362 00:28:41,499 --> 00:28:44,072 A whole procession of them. 363 00:28:44,252 --> 00:28:47,455 And every one of them ravishingly beautiful. 364 00:28:48,631 --> 00:28:51,584 I'm jealous of every one of them. 365 00:29:04,564 --> 00:29:05,844 Ah... 366 00:29:06,024 --> 00:29:08,561 Uh, it's been a dry year. 367 00:29:14,532 --> 00:29:17,782 The shepherds are driven early to the wells. 368 00:29:19,037 --> 00:29:23,330 Once, when I was a boy, we had a year when even the wells went dry. 369 00:29:23,791 --> 00:29:28,120 By midsummer we were slaughtering sheep, saving only the ewe lambs. 370 00:29:28,296 --> 00:29:30,787 That was the year that I fought the wolves. 371 00:29:30,965 --> 00:29:32,044 Tell me. 372 00:29:32,216 --> 00:29:34,623 Well, they'd been made desperate by hunger. 373 00:29:34,802 --> 00:29:37,921 I fought them for eight hours with my slingshot. 374 00:29:38,097 --> 00:29:40,469 In the morning, six of them lay dead. 375 00:29:40,641 --> 00:29:42,467 And you were only a boy. 376 00:29:43,853 --> 00:29:45,430 Well, I was quite a hand with the sling. 377 00:29:46,981 --> 00:29:49,816 Here I'll show you. 378 00:29:52,111 --> 00:29:54,269 May I try your sling? 379 00:30:01,579 --> 00:30:04,034 That tree. Watch. 380 00:30:21,098 --> 00:30:23,137 Very well, if you think you can do better. 381 00:30:38,615 --> 00:30:40,572 Yes. 382 00:30:46,290 --> 00:30:50,038 Well, I, uh... I lack practice. 383 00:31:04,182 --> 00:31:07,467 David, did you really kill Goliath? 384 00:31:09,604 --> 00:31:12,059 After seeing me with that sling, how could you doubt me? 385 00:31:14,776 --> 00:31:17,563 Was he truly as big as they say? 386 00:31:18,738 --> 00:31:22,071 Well, I will admit that he grows a little bit bigger every year. 387 00:31:38,716 --> 00:31:40,838 A new life. 388 00:31:45,431 --> 00:31:47,008 Oh, that's his mother. 389 00:31:47,183 --> 00:31:49,508 She's caught in the brambles. 390 00:31:57,986 --> 00:32:00,856 - I'll give you some help. - Thank you, sir. 391 00:32:02,490 --> 00:32:04,945 Let's clear those hind feet. 392 00:32:07,829 --> 00:32:10,616 No, use both hands. 393 00:32:13,543 --> 00:32:15,286 Oh. 394 00:32:43,406 --> 00:32:46,075 I'm an old soldier, sir. 395 00:32:49,036 --> 00:32:50,695 Fought for the king. 396 00:32:50,871 --> 00:32:54,121 - David? - Not him. 397 00:32:54,291 --> 00:32:55,950 But the king. 398 00:32:56,126 --> 00:32:57,501 King Saul. 399 00:32:58,379 --> 00:33:00,455 It was in his last battle. 400 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,002 There. 401 00:33:03,175 --> 00:33:04,717 At the Mount of Gilboa. 402 00:33:04,885 --> 00:33:06,842 It's peaceful now. 403 00:33:07,012 --> 00:33:11,009 Good grazing for the flocks, though we lack rain this year. 404 00:33:11,517 --> 00:33:14,470 But that day it rained blood. 405 00:33:14,728 --> 00:33:17,135 - Yes. - I saw the king die. 406 00:33:17,314 --> 00:33:21,726 Saw him fall on his sword when he knew the battle was lost. 407 00:33:22,361 --> 00:33:24,270 Tell me, did you... 408 00:33:24,446 --> 00:33:26,937 ...also see the king's son die? 409 00:33:27,115 --> 00:33:30,483 - Jonathan. - Yes, sir. I did. 410 00:33:31,203 --> 00:33:35,070 You see that rock that juts out from the face of the mountain? 411 00:33:35,249 --> 00:33:37,621 The big one, with the sun on it. 412 00:33:37,793 --> 00:33:40,200 Prince Jonathan stood there... 413 00:33:40,379 --> 00:33:43,629 ...with a loyal friend on each side of him. 414 00:33:43,799 --> 00:33:45,957 He fought there the livelong day. 415 00:33:46,134 --> 00:33:51,210 His friends went down but still he fought against tens... 416 00:33:51,389 --> 00:33:55,635 ...then against hundreds until they overwhelmed him. 417 00:33:55,811 --> 00:33:57,933 Those Philistines... 418 00:33:58,104 --> 00:34:01,354 ...and their brass and heathenish helmets. 419 00:34:01,816 --> 00:34:04,852 Ah, it was a black day for Israel. 420 00:34:05,028 --> 00:34:07,863 The king gone, Jonathan gone... 421 00:34:08,031 --> 00:34:11,115 ...none worthy to take their place. 422 00:34:11,284 --> 00:34:14,783 Yet Israel found a king in David. 423 00:34:14,954 --> 00:34:16,911 Saul was king. 424 00:34:17,082 --> 00:34:19,288 Jonathan should be king today. 425 00:34:25,882 --> 00:34:27,424 Here. 426 00:34:35,058 --> 00:34:36,849 Thank you, sir. 427 00:34:37,769 --> 00:34:40,306 Thank you kindly. 428 00:34:56,913 --> 00:34:58,490 David. 429 00:35:02,001 --> 00:35:03,281 Come. 430 00:35:03,461 --> 00:35:05,120 It's getting late. 431 00:39:05,325 --> 00:39:07,032 Jonathan. 432 00:39:09,162 --> 00:39:10,193 Jonathan! 433 00:39:53,081 --> 00:39:55,785 Oh, how the mighty have fallen... 434 00:39:58,002 --> 00:40:01,086 ...in the midst of the battle. 435 00:40:12,517 --> 00:40:14,593 Oh, Jonathan. 436 00:40:16,521 --> 00:40:19,012 Thou was slain... 437 00:40:19,232 --> 00:40:21,853 ...in thine high places. 438 00:40:25,947 --> 00:40:30,240 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. 439 00:40:34,622 --> 00:40:37,741 Very pleasant has thou been unto me. 440 00:40:38,793 --> 00:40:41,663 Thy love to me was wonderful. 441 00:40:44,131 --> 00:40:46,668 Passing the love of women. 442 00:40:50,554 --> 00:40:53,258 How have the mighty fallen. 443 00:40:54,392 --> 00:40:57,179 And the weapons of war... 444 00:40:57,645 --> 00:40:59,803 ...perished. 445 00:41:45,984 --> 00:41:47,526 Hyah! 446 00:41:54,368 --> 00:41:55,910 Hyah. 447 00:41:58,413 --> 00:41:59,955 Slow it up. 448 00:42:03,877 --> 00:42:06,118 Greetings, Abishai. 449 00:42:09,299 --> 00:42:11,090 I received your message. Am I in time? 450 00:42:11,259 --> 00:42:15,208 Yes, sire. Even now the caravan approaches Jerusalem. 451 00:42:22,479 --> 00:42:24,436 Look, Bathsheba. 452 00:42:24,898 --> 00:42:26,557 The Ark of the Covenant. 453 00:42:26,733 --> 00:42:31,026 A shrine that has traveled with our people through all their wanderings. 454 00:42:31,196 --> 00:42:34,280 I am bringing it here to its proper home. 455 00:42:34,449 --> 00:42:36,655 Get in, Abishai. I'll go down to meet Nathan. 456 00:42:36,826 --> 00:42:38,485 You'll take Bathsheba to her house. 457 00:42:39,162 --> 00:42:40,442 I beg you. 458 00:42:41,831 --> 00:42:43,490 No. 459 00:42:44,083 --> 00:42:46,075 No. 460 00:42:48,046 --> 00:42:52,174 Mercy. I beg you. Mercy. 461 00:43:00,808 --> 00:43:02,634 Mercy, I beg you. 462 00:43:02,810 --> 00:43:05,265 It's for you to cast the first stone. 463 00:43:05,438 --> 00:43:07,975 Mercy! 464 00:43:14,030 --> 00:43:15,689 Mercy. 465 00:43:19,076 --> 00:43:22,409 An adulteress, sire. She betrayed her husband in the arms of another. 466 00:43:22,580 --> 00:43:25,071 Judged and condemned under the law. 467 00:43:26,918 --> 00:43:29,587 Go. Take her home. 468 00:44:05,664 --> 00:44:07,989 - Sire. - Nathan. 469 00:44:19,636 --> 00:44:23,135 God's design is a strange one, Nathan. 470 00:44:24,683 --> 00:44:29,510 Consider how this box of wood has outlived the flesh that made it... 471 00:44:29,688 --> 00:44:32,225 ...and preserved it and venerated it. 472 00:44:35,110 --> 00:44:40,151 A pity that it is mute and blind and cannot tell us of our ancient dead. 473 00:44:41,074 --> 00:44:45,451 Of Moses on the mountain top. Of Miriam and Aaron. 474 00:44:45,829 --> 00:44:48,070 Of Joshua at the walls of Jericho. 475 00:44:48,248 --> 00:44:50,121 No, sire! 476 00:44:51,918 --> 00:44:54,491 Do not tempt the thunderbolts of the Lord. 477 00:44:54,671 --> 00:44:58,538 His dwelling is not to be profaned by unconsecrated hands. 478 00:44:58,717 --> 00:45:01,208 To touch it is to die. 479 00:45:06,433 --> 00:45:08,591 As you say, Nathan. 480 00:45:23,533 --> 00:45:27,577 The Ark! The Ark of the Covenant has fallen! 481 00:45:57,567 --> 00:45:59,524 He is dead. 482 00:46:04,323 --> 00:46:07,941 Let all take heed and bear witness to what they have seen... 483 00:46:08,119 --> 00:46:11,155 ...that the people may know the will of God. 484 00:46:11,330 --> 00:46:14,117 The time is not right for the entrance into the city. 485 00:46:14,292 --> 00:46:16,083 Unhitch the oxen. 486 00:46:16,252 --> 00:46:18,956 Let a tabernacle be erected on this spot. 487 00:46:19,588 --> 00:46:22,292 Let the Ark remain here outside the walls... 488 00:46:22,466 --> 00:46:25,751 ...until God has signified the appeasement of his wrath. 489 00:47:04,299 --> 00:47:06,006 David. 490 00:47:08,345 --> 00:47:09,969 Bathsheba. 491 00:47:11,848 --> 00:47:13,591 You shouldn't have come here. 492 00:47:13,767 --> 00:47:15,309 I had no choice. 493 00:47:15,477 --> 00:47:17,303 My news would not wait. 494 00:47:17,479 --> 00:47:19,138 David... 495 00:47:20,107 --> 00:47:21,482 ...I bring you trouble. 496 00:47:22,651 --> 00:47:25,188 Our secret is no longer a secret. 497 00:47:25,362 --> 00:47:27,687 - Who has learned it? - No one yet. 498 00:47:27,864 --> 00:47:31,149 But soon all will know who have eyes to see. 499 00:47:32,035 --> 00:47:35,866 I'm sure now of what I have feared this past week. 500 00:47:36,456 --> 00:47:38,781 I am with child. 501 00:47:39,376 --> 00:47:41,452 Beloved. 502 00:47:47,384 --> 00:47:49,672 No need for tears. 503 00:47:49,844 --> 00:47:52,216 You bring me only joy. 504 00:47:52,389 --> 00:47:54,880 What man would not be happy to learn that his wife... 505 00:47:55,058 --> 00:47:56,931 ...will give him a child? 506 00:47:58,478 --> 00:48:02,427 - I am not your wife. - You are my only wife. 507 00:48:02,607 --> 00:48:07,268 Please, beloved, do not be afraid. 508 00:48:07,445 --> 00:48:09,521 I am not afraid. 509 00:48:10,490 --> 00:48:13,656 Soon enough we must all go down to Sheol. 510 00:48:13,826 --> 00:48:16,495 My tears are for our child who will never see the light. 511 00:48:16,663 --> 00:48:18,370 Bathsheba, listen to me. 512 00:48:18,539 --> 00:48:20,033 You will not die. 513 00:48:20,208 --> 00:48:23,790 - The law says that I must. - They would not dare. I am the king. 514 00:48:23,962 --> 00:48:28,042 The Israelites have had kings for less than 50 years. 515 00:48:29,217 --> 00:48:31,790 They have had the law of Moses for hundreds. 516 00:48:31,969 --> 00:48:35,005 I will give them their kingdom. You and I will flee into Egypt. 517 00:48:35,181 --> 00:48:36,972 No, David. 518 00:48:38,518 --> 00:48:42,100 Your life is marked out on a certain course. 519 00:48:42,271 --> 00:48:46,138 Even you cannot change it if it's God's design. 520 00:48:58,245 --> 00:49:00,486 There is another answer. 521 00:49:01,916 --> 00:49:03,825 Uriah. 522 00:49:04,585 --> 00:49:06,826 Uriah is a soldier. 523 00:49:07,004 --> 00:49:11,048 Soldiers die every day in battle and not always by enemy hands. 524 00:49:11,217 --> 00:49:13,008 No, David. 525 00:49:13,219 --> 00:49:16,552 Even our love could not bear the burden of such a crime. 526 00:49:18,641 --> 00:49:21,178 The crime lies in the chance that I was born a Hebrew. 527 00:49:21,352 --> 00:49:24,222 In any other nation on earth, Uriah's life would be forfeit. 528 00:49:24,438 --> 00:49:26,395 It would be no less a crime. 529 00:49:31,779 --> 00:49:34,530 If I sent for him, told him everything... 530 00:49:36,116 --> 00:49:38,903 We both know what he would say. 531 00:49:40,496 --> 00:49:43,829 Yes. Honor is everything, charity nothing. 532 00:49:44,750 --> 00:49:46,659 For the sake of honor, blood must flow... 533 00:49:46,835 --> 00:49:50,120 ...lives must be ruined, humanity denied. 534 00:49:50,672 --> 00:49:54,586 I can see Uriah now, hurrying to the gate... 535 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,669 ...eager to be the first to cast a stone. 536 00:49:58,722 --> 00:50:00,132 Sire. 537 00:50:01,350 --> 00:50:02,429 What is it, Abishai? 538 00:50:02,643 --> 00:50:04,968 The orders for Joab, sire. 539 00:50:15,530 --> 00:50:17,356 Yes. 540 00:50:25,498 --> 00:50:27,739 Do not send it now. 541 00:50:27,918 --> 00:50:30,124 I may want to add to the message. 542 00:50:30,295 --> 00:50:32,038 Yes, sire. 543 00:50:42,349 --> 00:50:43,973 There is another way. 544 00:50:47,562 --> 00:50:50,135 Perhaps it will solve nothing... 545 00:50:51,191 --> 00:50:53,895 ...but at least it will gain us time. 546 00:50:57,030 --> 00:51:02,154 If Uriah can be made to believe that the child is his. 547 00:51:02,327 --> 00:51:05,078 But he has been away almost a year. 548 00:51:05,246 --> 00:51:07,322 I will send for him... 549 00:51:07,874 --> 00:51:10,661 ...to report on the campaign. 550 00:51:11,627 --> 00:51:14,544 He will be here in Jerusalem one night... 551 00:51:15,006 --> 00:51:16,832 ...perhaps two. 552 00:51:18,634 --> 00:51:21,207 - You called me your wife. - The law calls you his. 553 00:51:21,387 --> 00:51:24,304 That is not worthy of you, David. 554 00:51:25,224 --> 00:51:28,474 It tears my heart to suggest such a thing. 555 00:51:31,314 --> 00:51:34,149 But it is your life, beloved. 556 00:51:34,692 --> 00:51:36,933 Your life. 557 00:51:38,195 --> 00:51:40,483 It is shameful what you ask. 558 00:51:40,656 --> 00:51:43,443 There is no shame too great... 559 00:51:43,784 --> 00:51:47,651 ...no act so vile that I would not commit it... 560 00:51:48,456 --> 00:51:51,029 ...if it would save my love. 561 00:54:18,354 --> 00:54:21,520 It is late and our guest must be weary from the road. 562 00:54:22,817 --> 00:54:24,524 Come, Uriah. 563 00:54:25,194 --> 00:54:28,194 Absalom, it is many days since we have seen you at the palace. 564 00:54:28,364 --> 00:54:31,815 I have been in Judah, sire, tending to my vines. 565 00:54:32,034 --> 00:54:34,406 And do you expect a good yield from your vines? 566 00:54:34,620 --> 00:54:37,193 I have no reason to be dissatisfied, sire. 567 00:54:37,415 --> 00:54:39,740 In such a bad year. 568 00:54:39,959 --> 00:54:42,117 You're to be congratulated. 569 00:54:45,673 --> 00:54:49,801 - I should like a word with you in private. - I am at my king's service. 570 00:54:50,010 --> 00:54:51,753 I will not keep you long. 571 00:54:51,929 --> 00:54:56,472 You must be eager to go home to your wife. 572 00:54:57,935 --> 00:55:00,639 - You said the attack is planned. - Yes, sire. 573 00:55:00,813 --> 00:55:02,805 Joab's confident it'll meet with success. 574 00:55:02,981 --> 00:55:05,518 He promises you Rabbah within a week, sire. 575 00:55:06,026 --> 00:55:09,062 With your permission, I plan to return to camp early tomorrow... 576 00:55:09,238 --> 00:55:11,563 ...so that I may lead my hundred into the battle. 577 00:55:11,740 --> 00:55:15,868 As you wish. Abishai will have dispatches for you to carry. 578 00:55:16,161 --> 00:55:18,996 But if you desire to remain in Jerusalem longer... 579 00:55:19,164 --> 00:55:22,117 My only desire is to serve my king. 580 00:55:22,459 --> 00:55:26,587 Well, I might believe that, but you have a wife. 581 00:55:26,797 --> 00:55:29,881 My wife is nothing, sire, beside my duty. 582 00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,085 Sit down, Uriah. 583 00:55:36,014 --> 00:55:37,923 They say she is very beautiful. 584 00:55:38,100 --> 00:55:40,176 As women go. 585 00:55:51,321 --> 00:55:55,781 A woman does not always share her husband's devotion to duty. 586 00:55:55,951 --> 00:55:59,485 Have you ever tried to think of things from her point of view? 587 00:55:59,663 --> 00:56:01,038 No, sire. 588 00:56:01,206 --> 00:56:04,206 But supposing her wishes and yours come into conflict? 589 00:56:04,376 --> 00:56:07,127 A woman's wishes cannot conflict with her husband's, sire. 590 00:56:07,295 --> 00:56:09,583 - That is the law. - The law. 591 00:56:09,756 --> 00:56:12,673 The law can only control what we do... 592 00:56:12,884 --> 00:56:14,294 ...not what we think. 593 00:56:14,469 --> 00:56:16,046 What does your wife think, Uriah? 594 00:56:17,430 --> 00:56:19,173 I do not know, sire. 595 00:56:19,349 --> 00:56:23,298 Is it possible that you believe that she does not think or feel? 596 00:56:25,313 --> 00:56:29,310 A woman is flesh and blood, Uriah, like us. 597 00:56:29,692 --> 00:56:33,938 Perhaps more so because we give her so little to think of but matters of the flesh. 598 00:56:34,113 --> 00:56:36,568 In all our history, only a handful of women... 599 00:56:36,741 --> 00:56:39,777 ...have been permitted to write their names beside the men. 600 00:56:39,994 --> 00:56:43,528 Miriam, Deborah, Jael, perhaps one or two more. 601 00:56:44,207 --> 00:56:47,622 A woman's occupation is her husband... 602 00:56:48,002 --> 00:56:50,789 ...and her life is her love. 603 00:56:51,380 --> 00:56:55,591 But if her husband rejects her love, if he puts another love before it... 604 00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:59,971 ...if he denies her the only meaning that her life can have... 605 00:57:00,973 --> 00:57:04,840 ...is it not understandable if she seeks a meaning for it elsewhere? 606 00:57:05,937 --> 00:57:07,016 With another man? 607 00:57:09,482 --> 00:57:12,399 - Yes. - Lf she does, she breaks the law. 608 00:57:13,903 --> 00:57:16,773 But if her husband feels pity for her... 609 00:57:16,989 --> 00:57:20,239 ...under the law, he is the one who must condemn her. 610 00:57:20,451 --> 00:57:23,985 Then it is doubly his duty to be sure that the law is obeyed. 611 00:57:36,342 --> 00:57:38,583 Would you condemn your own wife, Uriah? 612 00:57:38,802 --> 00:57:40,082 Bathsheba? 613 00:57:41,889 --> 00:57:43,299 That is not possible. 614 00:57:44,224 --> 00:57:45,766 But if it were possible? 615 00:57:49,855 --> 00:57:52,061 I would not hesitate to do my duty, sire. 616 00:57:54,443 --> 00:57:58,440 You would force her to suffer the most horrible of deaths? 617 00:57:58,614 --> 00:58:00,820 Let the mob drive her like a dog... 618 00:58:00,991 --> 00:58:03,991 ...through the streets to the city gates? 619 00:58:04,328 --> 00:58:08,491 Watch the cruel stones strike her flesh, let...? 620 00:58:10,918 --> 00:58:12,412 Yes, sire... 621 00:58:13,003 --> 00:58:14,710 ...if she had broken the law. 622 00:58:20,093 --> 00:58:23,378 I've kept you too long from your bed. You may go. 623 00:58:26,308 --> 00:58:27,967 Sire... 624 00:58:28,351 --> 00:58:30,224 ...will you grant me a boon? 625 00:58:30,437 --> 00:58:32,643 What is your wish? 626 00:58:38,653 --> 00:58:41,570 When Abishai prepares the dispatches... 627 00:58:41,740 --> 00:58:44,361 ...let him say this to Joab in your name: 628 00:58:44,576 --> 00:58:47,363 "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle... 629 00:58:47,537 --> 00:58:51,036 ...that he may serve his king to the utmost of his ability." 630 00:58:53,835 --> 00:58:56,752 I will consider it, Uriah. 631 00:58:56,963 --> 00:58:59,002 My thanks, sire. 632 01:00:43,652 --> 01:00:45,940 You are up late, David. 633 01:00:47,865 --> 01:00:48,979 So are you. 634 01:00:49,157 --> 01:00:51,992 I thought I might be of comfort to my husband. 635 01:00:52,953 --> 01:00:57,911 It's a terrible thing to know that your beloved... 636 01:00:58,083 --> 01:01:00,408 ...is in the arms of another. 637 01:01:00,585 --> 01:01:02,458 Do not trouble to lie. 638 01:01:02,629 --> 01:01:04,835 You see, I know your secret. 639 01:01:05,007 --> 01:01:07,711 Yours and the lady Bathsheba's. 640 01:01:07,884 --> 01:01:10,920 - You know nothing. - The lady has servants. 641 01:01:11,096 --> 01:01:15,639 Servants tell things to other servants and they tell them to their mistresses. 642 01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,474 So the daughter of Saul concocts a fantasy from servants' gossip. 643 01:01:20,647 --> 01:01:23,647 Bathsheba's condition is no fantasy. 644 01:01:23,817 --> 01:01:26,652 And the child she carries is yours. 645 01:01:26,820 --> 01:01:31,197 Oh, my husband, I guessed at once why you had sent for Uriah. 646 01:01:31,366 --> 01:01:34,865 Only David would have thought of it. A clever trick. 647 01:01:35,036 --> 01:01:38,451 - Worthy of the son of goatherds. - Get out. 648 01:01:41,334 --> 01:01:44,251 You cannot save Bathsheba now. 649 01:01:44,421 --> 01:01:46,793 Your scheme has failed. 650 01:01:47,340 --> 01:01:50,874 Uriah has not been to his house all night. 651 01:01:52,428 --> 01:01:58,762 Even now, he sleeps here in the palace with the officers of your guard. 652 01:02:54,031 --> 01:02:57,031 Sire, forgive me. 653 01:02:57,618 --> 01:03:01,366 - I have slept late. - I told you to go home. 654 01:03:01,539 --> 01:03:04,076 I ask your pardon, sire. 655 01:03:04,250 --> 01:03:05,744 I could not go to my wife. 656 01:03:05,918 --> 01:03:07,577 Why not? 657 01:03:07,753 --> 01:03:10,540 It's a matter of my own worthiness. 658 01:03:12,383 --> 01:03:14,624 Perhaps you will consider this foolish... 659 01:03:14,802 --> 01:03:18,301 ...but when Joab told me I was to come to Jerusalem... 660 01:03:18,472 --> 01:03:21,307 ...I swore an oath on my sword. 661 01:03:21,517 --> 01:03:24,470 I swore that while the army still slept in tents... 662 01:03:24,645 --> 01:03:27,681 ...while Rabbah still stood in defiance of God's will... 663 01:03:28,315 --> 01:03:32,644 ...I would deny myself the comforts and the pleasures of my own house. 664 01:03:33,278 --> 01:03:35,104 I would keep myself clean for battle... 665 01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:37,402 ...as if for entering the tabernacle of the Ark. 666 01:03:41,078 --> 01:03:44,446 I am sorry if I have offended my king. 667 01:03:49,002 --> 01:03:51,753 If the dispatches are ready, I will go. 668 01:03:53,006 --> 01:03:54,832 You fool. 669 01:03:55,050 --> 01:03:58,917 You stupid, blind fool. 670 01:04:08,939 --> 01:04:10,053 Sire. 671 01:04:12,692 --> 01:04:14,269 Dispatches for Joab, sire. 672 01:04:15,862 --> 01:04:18,732 Dispatches. Shall I give them to Uriah? 673 01:04:21,201 --> 01:04:22,659 No. 674 01:04:24,537 --> 01:04:26,328 No. 675 01:04:35,715 --> 01:04:38,206 There is an additional order. 676 01:04:39,385 --> 01:04:43,678 Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 677 01:04:47,060 --> 01:04:49,764 It is his own wish, Abishai. 678 01:04:50,021 --> 01:04:52,476 Even his own words. 679 01:04:58,905 --> 01:05:00,897 Is that all? 680 01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:02,864 No. 681 01:05:03,951 --> 01:05:07,366 I will not add hypocrisy to my other sins. 682 01:05:07,538 --> 01:05:09,744 Even if Joab should understand what I intend... 683 01:05:09,916 --> 01:05:13,367 ...I cannot ask him to share the burden of my guilt. 684 01:05:15,046 --> 01:05:17,038 Here is the order: 685 01:05:17,798 --> 01:05:20,419 Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle... 686 01:05:20,593 --> 01:05:23,677 ...and retire from him that he may be smitten and die. 687 01:05:23,846 --> 01:05:25,470 - Yes. - When it is finished... 688 01:05:25,681 --> 01:05:28,350 ...seal it and give it to Uriah. 689 01:05:31,187 --> 01:05:32,894 Yes, sire. 690 01:06:43,341 --> 01:06:46,258 Sire, we bring great news. 691 01:06:46,428 --> 01:06:48,753 The walls of Rabbah have been breached. 692 01:06:48,930 --> 01:06:51,847 When we left, there was fighting in the streets of the city. 693 01:06:52,017 --> 01:06:54,721 Joab bids me urge you to come to Rabbah with all speed... 694 01:06:54,895 --> 01:06:57,516 ...to receive the surrender of your enemies. 695 01:07:03,820 --> 01:07:05,230 And our dead? 696 01:07:05,405 --> 01:07:08,156 Our losses have been heavy, sire. 697 01:07:08,324 --> 01:07:10,115 Of the captains of a thousand: 698 01:07:10,285 --> 01:07:14,614 Abimelech the son of Jurabiel, and Heled the son of lkkesh. 699 01:07:14,789 --> 01:07:18,407 Of the captains of a hundred: Hezro the Carmelite... 700 01:07:18,585 --> 01:07:20,992 ...Igal the son of Zelek... 701 01:07:21,171 --> 01:07:23,459 ...Ittai the son of Ribai... 702 01:07:23,631 --> 01:07:25,588 ...Abiel the Arbathite... 703 01:07:25,758 --> 01:07:27,750 ...Eliam the son of Reuben... 704 01:07:27,927 --> 01:07:29,966 ...Shammah the Harodite... 705 01:07:30,138 --> 01:07:32,047 ...Uriah the Hittite... 706 01:07:32,223 --> 01:07:34,014 ...Bani the Gadite... 707 01:07:34,183 --> 01:07:36,471 ...Azmaveth the son of Eli... 708 01:07:36,644 --> 01:07:39,395 ...and many more are wounded. 709 01:07:42,024 --> 01:07:46,187 How did Uriah the Hittite die? 710 01:07:46,404 --> 01:07:48,526 There was a mistake in the orders, sire. 711 01:07:48,739 --> 01:07:53,531 Uriah advanced too far into the breach and was cut off from his command. 712 01:07:56,497 --> 01:08:00,245 When you've eaten and rested, prepare to return to Rabbah, I'll ride with you. 713 01:08:00,418 --> 01:08:01,828 Sire. 714 01:08:12,054 --> 01:08:16,799 Sire, the lady Bathsheba's servant is waiting for your answer. 715 01:08:19,395 --> 01:08:21,553 Go to Bathsheba. 716 01:08:21,939 --> 01:08:24,690 Tell her that Uriah is dead. 717 01:08:24,900 --> 01:08:27,817 Tell her to prepare for our marriage... 718 01:08:28,028 --> 01:08:30,067 ...at the end of her month of mourning. 719 01:08:30,281 --> 01:08:32,569 Will you not go to her yourself? 720 01:08:33,909 --> 01:08:35,486 No. 721 01:09:25,210 --> 01:09:29,290 The hand of God is heavy on his people. 722 01:09:29,464 --> 01:09:31,207 Thus speaks the Lord: 723 01:09:31,424 --> 01:09:33,001 "I will withhold the rains... 724 01:09:33,176 --> 01:09:36,260 ...and cause the fields and vineyards to dry up... 725 01:09:36,429 --> 01:09:38,255 ...the flocks to grow thin. 726 01:09:38,431 --> 01:09:42,927 I will waste the land with drought, the people with famine. 727 01:09:43,103 --> 01:09:46,685 Yea, I will smite Israel for its sin against me. 728 01:09:46,856 --> 01:09:51,482 Woe unto Israel. Woe unto my people who have sinned." 729 01:09:53,696 --> 01:09:55,071 What sin, Nathan? 730 01:09:56,116 --> 01:10:00,030 The Lord has not vouchsafed to me its nature... 731 01:10:00,370 --> 01:10:02,658 ...but evidently the sin is great... 732 01:10:03,289 --> 01:10:06,289 ...thus to incur his wrath. 733 01:10:07,001 --> 01:10:09,456 Does it take so much to make him angry? 734 01:10:09,629 --> 01:10:13,543 That soldier who laid hands on the Ark, he was only trying to be helpful. 735 01:10:13,716 --> 01:10:16,088 It is not for us to question the ways of the Lord. 736 01:10:16,260 --> 01:10:18,299 I question nothing. 737 01:10:18,471 --> 01:10:22,338 Yet the sun was hot that day. The man had been drinking wine. 738 01:10:22,517 --> 01:10:25,850 All were excited when the Ark began to fall. 739 01:10:26,020 --> 01:10:30,313 Is it not possible that the man might have died naturally from other causes? 740 01:10:30,483 --> 01:10:33,353 All causes are of God. 741 01:10:34,403 --> 01:10:36,110 We've had droughts before, Nathan. 742 01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:38,853 I am buying grain in Egypt and Philistia. 743 01:10:39,033 --> 01:10:42,698 There will be enough until the rains come, if I have to empty my treasuries. 744 01:10:42,870 --> 01:10:44,280 Now, what more can I do? 745 01:10:45,998 --> 01:10:48,749 - Is there anything else? - Yes, sire. 746 01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,210 I have sat in the gate and listened to the people talk of the king. 747 01:10:52,380 --> 01:10:53,542 What do they say? 748 01:10:53,756 --> 01:10:55,997 They say that David is no longer David. 749 01:10:56,175 --> 01:10:59,958 They say that he neglects his duty, that he is often away from the city. 750 01:11:00,137 --> 01:11:03,552 When he is here, he has turned his face from his people. 751 01:11:03,724 --> 01:11:07,673 Petitioners are sent away from his door without a hearing. 752 01:11:07,853 --> 01:11:10,770 In hard times, it's natural that some will complain. 753 01:11:10,940 --> 01:11:13,691 Complain, yes, sire. 754 01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:18,025 But not talk openly of overthrowing the king. 755 01:11:20,491 --> 01:11:22,150 Explain yourself. 756 01:11:22,326 --> 01:11:26,786 The hearts of the Israelites are turning after your son. 757 01:11:27,790 --> 01:11:30,993 Well, it's difficult to imagine poor Amnon winning anyone's heart. 758 01:11:31,168 --> 01:11:34,252 Not Amnon. Your second son, Absalom. 759 01:11:34,421 --> 01:11:36,876 - The boy? - Every day, he is at the gate... 760 01:11:37,049 --> 01:11:38,922 ...seeking those you have turned away. 761 01:11:39,092 --> 01:11:41,001 To these he says: 762 01:11:41,220 --> 01:11:43,627 "Oh, that I were made a judge in the land... 763 01:11:43,805 --> 01:11:47,754 ...that all may come to me and receive justice." 764 01:11:48,727 --> 01:11:51,218 Confine yourself to the affairs of God. 765 01:11:51,396 --> 01:11:54,681 - Leave the affairs of the kingdom to me. - Sire. 766 01:11:54,858 --> 01:11:57,942 Oh, Abishai. I have orders for Joab. 767 01:12:00,322 --> 01:12:04,366 The king forgets that he, too, is a servant of the Lord. 768 01:13:08,473 --> 01:13:10,430 The priests are waiting. 769 01:13:12,185 --> 01:13:16,562 I have been waiting these days and weeks. 770 01:13:16,731 --> 01:13:20,431 Waiting for a word from the one who called himself my lover. 771 01:13:20,610 --> 01:13:22,982 For a sign that all of his promises were not lies. 772 01:13:23,154 --> 01:13:26,487 - Beloved, I... - Do not call me that, the word is a lie. 773 01:13:27,241 --> 01:13:30,656 If you still loved me, you would not have avoided me. 774 01:13:30,828 --> 01:13:35,157 You would not have left me in darkness, alone with my fears. 775 01:13:35,333 --> 01:13:39,626 - You know that I was called to Rabbah... - It is a week since your return. 776 01:13:42,590 --> 01:13:44,416 They are waiting. 777 01:13:44,884 --> 01:13:46,793 Let them wait. 778 01:13:47,011 --> 01:13:49,336 There will be no wedding. 779 01:13:51,015 --> 01:13:54,181 I will not try to justify my behavior. 780 01:13:54,435 --> 01:13:57,104 But even if I have earned your hatred... 781 01:13:58,397 --> 01:14:01,563 ...you know why the wedding must take place. 782 01:14:03,944 --> 01:14:08,107 I could more easily find courage to face the stones of the mob. 783 01:14:08,782 --> 01:14:13,075 If our marriage is no more than an act of charity on your part, then say so. 784 01:14:13,245 --> 01:14:18,405 If I have lost your love, tell me, and I will trouble you no longer. 785 01:14:18,584 --> 01:14:21,205 I am not a beggar, David. 786 01:14:21,378 --> 01:14:23,287 Beloved... 787 01:14:24,089 --> 01:14:26,793 ...it is I who am the beggar. 788 01:14:27,301 --> 01:14:29,756 I beg your patience. 789 01:14:30,721 --> 01:14:33,294 If you love me, say no more. 790 01:14:33,724 --> 01:14:36,215 Take my love on faith. 791 01:14:37,144 --> 01:14:42,102 It is yours and will always be yours. 792 01:14:58,206 --> 01:15:00,282 Come, my wife. 793 01:17:50,710 --> 01:17:51,990 My lady. 794 01:17:52,170 --> 01:17:55,752 The king should be called if he would again see his son alive. 795 01:17:58,927 --> 01:18:00,551 Call him. 796 01:18:24,244 --> 01:18:25,903 Sire. 797 01:18:34,212 --> 01:18:37,047 The lady Bathsheba asks your presence. 798 01:18:39,175 --> 01:18:41,463 The child is better? 799 01:18:41,636 --> 01:18:43,545 No, sire. 800 01:19:15,586 --> 01:19:18,159 The physicians can do no more. 801 01:19:18,756 --> 01:19:20,878 They say he will die. 802 01:19:21,091 --> 01:19:22,917 I know. 803 01:19:23,636 --> 01:19:26,506 I have known it these seven days. 804 01:19:27,389 --> 01:19:30,389 I have lain in sackcloth on the earth. 805 01:19:30,851 --> 01:19:34,350 I have fasted. I have tried to pray. 806 01:19:35,564 --> 01:19:38,399 My prayers were only words... 807 01:19:38,734 --> 01:19:41,355 ...going out into emptiness. 808 01:19:42,821 --> 01:19:45,821 They fell on no ears but my own. 809 01:20:15,562 --> 01:20:17,020 Sire. 810 01:20:17,856 --> 01:20:22,517 You told me to inform you, the ambassador from Egypt has arrived. 811 01:20:22,694 --> 01:20:24,770 Shall I send him away? 812 01:20:29,618 --> 01:20:31,776 No, I will go down. 813 01:20:37,542 --> 01:20:40,626 The time for grieving has past. 814 01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:45,414 Will it bring my son back if I mourn for him? 815 01:20:48,011 --> 01:20:50,502 No, I shall go to him. 816 01:20:51,931 --> 01:20:54,931 But he will not return to me. 817 01:21:25,506 --> 01:21:30,002 The heart of the pharaoh bleeds for his cousin and for the people of Israel. 818 01:21:30,178 --> 01:21:34,923 But alas, the pharaoh's storehouses are empty. 819 01:21:35,099 --> 01:21:37,175 There is barely enough grain to feed Egypt. 820 01:21:38,144 --> 01:21:41,643 The heart of a pharaoh cannot bleed for it is bloodless. 821 01:21:41,814 --> 01:21:44,020 The storehouses of Egypt are full. 822 01:21:44,191 --> 01:21:47,394 By sacred Osiris, I swear to you, I speak truth. 823 01:21:49,488 --> 01:21:54,564 Dog of Egypt, you lie, and your master lies. 824 01:21:55,870 --> 01:21:57,613 It is only what I expected. 825 01:21:57,788 --> 01:21:59,994 Charity is not to be found among those... 826 01:22:00,166 --> 01:22:03,250 ...who make gods of vultures and hyenas. 827 01:22:03,961 --> 01:22:08,706 - Now go. - Nathan, the prophet of God. 828 01:22:32,156 --> 01:22:34,397 I come on a matter of justice, sire. 829 01:22:34,575 --> 01:22:36,900 Hear and render judgment. 830 01:22:42,791 --> 01:22:43,870 You may speak. 831 01:22:51,049 --> 01:22:53,966 There were two men, one rich and one poor. 832 01:22:54,136 --> 01:22:57,551 The rich man owned great flocks and herds. 833 01:22:57,723 --> 01:23:00,807 But the poor man had naught but one ewe lamb. 834 01:23:00,976 --> 01:23:03,513 He reared it and it grew up with him and his children. 835 01:23:03,687 --> 01:23:08,479 It ate of his food and drank of his cup. It was like a daughter to him. 836 01:23:08,650 --> 01:23:12,101 Now there came a wayfarer to the rich man asking meat. 837 01:23:12,279 --> 01:23:15,944 But the rich man did not take of his own flocks to feed his guest. 838 01:23:16,116 --> 01:23:19,983 Instead, he took the poor man's one ewe lamb and slew it... 839 01:23:20,161 --> 01:23:22,283 ...and prepared it for the wayfarer. 840 01:23:23,873 --> 01:23:26,280 What is your verdict upon this man? 841 01:23:26,459 --> 01:23:28,332 He shall restore the lamb seven-fold. 842 01:23:28,503 --> 01:23:30,579 The lamb is dead, it cannot be restored. 843 01:23:30,755 --> 01:23:33,542 Then the man deserves to die because he had no pity. 844 01:23:35,009 --> 01:23:36,384 You are the man. 845 01:23:50,316 --> 01:23:54,064 You have made me pronounce sentence upon myself. 846 01:24:00,410 --> 01:24:02,153 Very well. 847 01:24:05,665 --> 01:24:07,622 It is done. 848 01:24:08,167 --> 01:24:10,408 Then there is no appeal. 849 01:24:11,379 --> 01:24:14,166 It is the will of God, and I accept it. Gladly. 850 01:24:14,340 --> 01:24:16,831 It is not his will that you should die, David. 851 01:24:17,009 --> 01:24:19,297 Worthy or unworthy, you are his anointed. 852 01:24:19,470 --> 01:24:22,091 Through Samuel, he chose you to lead his people. 853 01:24:22,306 --> 01:24:25,509 Your labors in his behalf are still unfinished. 854 01:24:25,685 --> 01:24:28,354 But you cannot escape the punishment of the Lord. 855 01:24:30,856 --> 01:24:33,311 I have not escaped it. 856 01:24:34,151 --> 01:24:35,479 My son is dead. 857 01:24:35,653 --> 01:24:38,190 His justice is still unsatisfied. 858 01:24:38,406 --> 01:24:41,075 You've paid for your adultery, but you have also killed. 859 01:24:41,242 --> 01:24:44,741 You've taken up the sword and slain your fellow creature for your desire. 860 01:24:45,287 --> 01:24:48,905 Now, therefore the sword shall never depart from your house. 861 01:24:49,124 --> 01:24:52,290 You shall know the hatred and ingratitude of your own flesh. 862 01:24:52,503 --> 01:24:56,500 Brother shall turn against brother and son against father. 863 01:24:56,715 --> 01:25:00,926 The history of David's house shall be a history written in blood. 864 01:25:01,095 --> 01:25:03,217 You tell me nothing new. 865 01:25:04,181 --> 01:25:07,596 - I am content. - Even so the tally of the Lord is not paid. 866 01:25:07,768 --> 01:25:11,635 The woman is being denounced. She also must expiate her sin. 867 01:25:12,189 --> 01:25:13,980 She has lost her child. 868 01:25:14,149 --> 01:25:17,102 - Is that not enough? - Bathsheba has sinned... 869 01:25:17,277 --> 01:25:19,814 ...and she must render payment according to the law of Moses. 870 01:25:23,784 --> 01:25:26,072 Uriah's death was my act and mine alone. 871 01:25:26,245 --> 01:25:28,486 She was a faithless wife. 872 01:25:28,664 --> 01:25:31,119 Faithless only because I made her so. 873 01:25:31,291 --> 01:25:32,868 Could she deny the king? 874 01:25:33,043 --> 01:25:35,996 When I called her, could she refuse to obey my commands? 875 01:25:43,929 --> 01:25:46,965 No. She would never lie for herself... 876 01:25:47,724 --> 01:25:49,633 ...and I will not lie for her. 877 01:25:52,479 --> 01:25:54,886 But even if she sinned... 878 01:25:55,524 --> 01:25:57,931 ...she has done no evil. 879 01:25:58,568 --> 01:26:01,734 She came to me with love and tenderness. 880 01:26:01,947 --> 01:26:04,188 She lifted up my heart. 881 01:26:05,242 --> 01:26:07,151 She has brought no evil with her. 882 01:26:07,327 --> 01:26:09,948 She has brought adultery and murder. 883 01:26:10,163 --> 01:26:13,329 She has brought the drought and the famine. 884 01:26:13,500 --> 01:26:16,073 She has brought the wrath of God upon Israel. 885 01:26:27,138 --> 01:26:29,379 They know the law and so does David. 886 01:26:29,557 --> 01:26:31,798 Yes, I know the law. 887 01:26:32,310 --> 01:26:34,931 Where are the accusers? 888 01:26:35,146 --> 01:26:38,728 Under the law, they must cast the first stone. 889 01:26:40,443 --> 01:26:44,986 Where are those who will say that I knew Bathsheba before our marriage? 890 01:26:49,243 --> 01:26:52,327 Who will dare to say it to my face? 891 01:26:57,001 --> 01:27:00,915 So there are no accusers. You have none. 892 01:27:25,780 --> 01:27:27,404 Michal. 893 01:27:30,951 --> 01:27:35,363 I cannot find it in my heart to blame you for what you do. 894 01:27:37,917 --> 01:27:40,158 But you, Absalom... 895 01:27:41,128 --> 01:27:42,787 …my son. 896 01:27:44,340 --> 01:27:46,795 Have I given you cause to hate me so? 897 01:27:46,967 --> 01:27:50,133 Go, David, and bring Bathsheba here to face her judges. 898 01:27:50,304 --> 01:27:51,798 You have made her a queen. 899 01:27:51,972 --> 01:27:55,637 It is not fitting that she should be dragged to judgment by the people. 900 01:28:25,255 --> 01:28:26,914 My lady. 901 01:28:34,806 --> 01:28:37,343 Abishai, go to the stable and get horses. 902 01:28:37,517 --> 01:28:39,593 Bring them to the gate in the garden wall. 903 01:28:39,769 --> 01:28:40,931 - Yes, sire. - Not that way. 904 01:28:41,104 --> 01:28:44,021 They'll be watching. Go by way of the terrace. 905 01:28:44,608 --> 01:28:46,730 We'll be out before they know we've gone. 906 01:28:46,902 --> 01:28:48,360 Sire. 907 01:28:50,322 --> 01:28:52,361 The palace is surrounded. 908 01:28:54,492 --> 01:28:57,243 Call the guards. Surely my own bodyguard can be trusted. 909 01:28:57,454 --> 01:28:59,493 Go. Go. 910 01:29:08,590 --> 01:29:10,132 No, David. 911 01:29:12,385 --> 01:29:14,958 We cannot fight against the will of God. 912 01:29:15,180 --> 01:29:17,635 A God who punishes the guiltless? 913 01:29:19,976 --> 01:29:22,431 I am not without guilt, David. 914 01:29:28,401 --> 01:29:30,892 Now I know how Uriah died. 915 01:29:38,327 --> 01:29:41,197 I think I really knew before our marriage. 916 01:29:41,372 --> 01:29:46,366 Knew and put it from my mind, I lacked the courage to face the truth. 917 01:29:46,544 --> 01:29:49,747 My guilt is as great as yours. 918 01:29:50,423 --> 01:29:51,833 Greater. 919 01:29:52,008 --> 01:29:54,333 Because I let you bear the burden of it alone. 920 01:29:54,510 --> 01:29:58,210 - I killed him. - I wished him dead. 921 01:29:59,432 --> 01:30:02,349 God sees into our hearts, David. 922 01:30:11,193 --> 01:30:13,066 I am ready. 923 01:30:16,740 --> 01:30:18,649 But I cannot let them take you. 924 01:30:18,868 --> 01:30:21,240 I cannot let you die. 925 01:30:28,752 --> 01:30:30,411 David. 926 01:30:32,381 --> 01:30:34,172 Yes, love. 927 01:30:44,560 --> 01:30:48,604 In all our time together, you have never played for me. 928 01:30:50,149 --> 01:30:52,818 Something from your boyhood... 929 01:30:53,652 --> 01:30:56,059 ...when you were a shepherd. 930 01:31:49,916 --> 01:31:52,288 The Lord is my shepherd. 931 01:31:53,753 --> 01:31:55,875 I shall not want. 932 01:31:56,631 --> 01:32:00,580 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. 933 01:32:01,135 --> 01:32:04,669 He leadeth me beside the still waters. 934 01:32:05,974 --> 01:32:08,429 He restoreth my soul. 935 01:32:08,643 --> 01:32:13,803 He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 936 01:32:15,441 --> 01:32:16,983 Yea. 937 01:32:18,569 --> 01:32:22,483 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death... 938 01:32:22,782 --> 01:32:27,360 ...I will fear no evil for thou art with me. 939 01:32:27,954 --> 01:32:30,824 Thy rod and thy staff... 940 01:32:32,416 --> 01:32:34,538 ...they comfort me. 941 01:32:43,678 --> 01:32:46,714 Thou preparest a table before me... 942 01:32:46,889 --> 01:32:49,842 ...in the presence of mine enemies. 943 01:32:50,893 --> 01:32:53,728 Thou anointest my head with oil... 944 01:32:54,522 --> 01:32:57,095 ...my cup runneth over. 945 01:32:58,317 --> 01:33:02,017 Surely goodness and mercy... 946 01:33:02,238 --> 01:33:05,737 ...shall follow me all the days of my life. 947 01:33:08,619 --> 01:33:11,703 And I will dwell in the house of the Lord... 948 01:33:14,124 --> 01:33:15,950 ...forever. 949 01:33:41,235 --> 01:33:43,108 Goodness... 950 01:33:43,612 --> 01:33:45,604 ...and mercy. 951 01:33:48,492 --> 01:33:50,864 When I wrote those words... 952 01:33:51,536 --> 01:33:54,287 ...I believed in such a God. 953 01:33:56,375 --> 01:33:59,411 I was only an ignorant shepherd boy. 954 01:34:01,004 --> 01:34:04,170 There was no one to teach me about God. 955 01:34:05,258 --> 01:34:07,630 So I taught myself. 956 01:34:10,639 --> 01:34:12,596 I saw him... 957 01:34:13,099 --> 01:34:15,091 ...in the hills... 958 01:34:15,602 --> 01:34:17,890 ...in the trees... 959 01:34:19,147 --> 01:34:22,480 ...in the miracle of the birth of lambs. 960 01:34:23,276 --> 01:34:28,400 I felt his mercy when the wolves had fled and my flock was safe. 961 01:34:28,782 --> 01:34:32,649 When spring broke the grip of snow and ice. 962 01:34:33,495 --> 01:34:39,497 When the cool wind blew after the heat of the day... 963 01:34:41,336 --> 01:34:43,873 ...I saw his splendor... 964 01:34:44,297 --> 01:34:47,796 ...in the flowers blazing on the hillsides... 965 01:34:49,177 --> 01:34:52,296 ...and the stars burning in the sky. 966 01:34:53,931 --> 01:34:56,718 And knew his hand... 967 01:34:58,853 --> 01:35:00,810 ...in everything. 968 01:35:07,904 --> 01:35:10,311 Then I wandered from him. 969 01:35:11,824 --> 01:35:14,741 And when I tried to find him again... 970 01:35:17,538 --> 01:35:18,818 ...I had lost him. 971 01:35:22,376 --> 01:35:25,211 Somewhere in Saul's court... 972 01:35:26,547 --> 01:35:29,464 ...or when I roamed the desert in exile... 973 01:35:30,009 --> 01:35:32,844 ...or in the camp of the Philistines. 974 01:35:35,514 --> 01:35:39,013 His image paled in the lights of the cities... 975 01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:43,806 ...and his voice was drowned in the quarreling and scheming... 976 01:35:44,940 --> 01:35:47,098 ...of the ambitious... 977 01:35:47,318 --> 01:35:49,606 ...and the mighty. 978 01:35:51,572 --> 01:35:55,106 And now Nathan has found him for me. 979 01:35:55,326 --> 01:35:58,659 Not the God of my boyhood days... 980 01:35:58,912 --> 01:36:01,663 ...but a God without mercy. 981 01:36:01,874 --> 01:36:05,373 A God who thinks only of his justice. 982 01:36:09,715 --> 01:36:11,624 So you must die. 983 01:36:13,135 --> 01:36:17,547 As the soldier died when he tried to save the Ark from falling. 984 01:36:18,891 --> 01:36:21,844 He put his hands on the Ark like this: 985 01:36:35,866 --> 01:36:38,819 You shall not die. 986 01:36:49,337 --> 01:36:52,254 You shall not die. 987 01:36:59,097 --> 01:37:00,923 These are all who are willing, sire. 988 01:37:01,141 --> 01:37:03,976 They will be enough. Take your stand at this door. 989 01:37:04,185 --> 01:37:07,435 If anyone tries to enter, cut him down. 990 01:37:12,902 --> 01:37:14,811 You two at the right of the door. 991 01:37:14,988 --> 01:37:16,446 Two at the left. 992 01:37:16,781 --> 01:37:18,820 Two at the wall. 993 01:37:19,117 --> 01:37:22,735 You two at the stairs. And you two at the gate here. 994 01:37:30,128 --> 01:37:32,998 - Where is the woman? - She is not coming. 995 01:37:36,259 --> 01:37:38,335 Silence! 996 01:37:40,305 --> 01:37:42,381 He is the king. 997 01:37:51,649 --> 01:37:55,895 - You have heard the word of God. - I have heard the word of Nathan. 998 01:37:56,112 --> 01:37:58,270 You have told me that God demands justice. 999 01:37:58,447 --> 01:38:00,273 That I will believe. 1000 01:38:00,449 --> 01:38:03,948 I will not believe he would condemn a helpless woman for another's crime. 1001 01:38:04,161 --> 01:38:06,118 - Where are you going? - To the tabernacle. 1002 01:38:06,330 --> 01:38:10,493 If God is what you say he is, if this is truly his justice... 1003 01:38:10,710 --> 01:38:12,369 ...then let him speak for himself. 1004 01:38:12,545 --> 01:38:14,584 Will you go to him in anger? 1005 01:38:14,797 --> 01:38:17,038 He has shown me nothing but anger. 1006 01:38:17,258 --> 01:38:18,835 He has turned his face from me. 1007 01:38:19,009 --> 01:38:22,045 It was David who first turned his face from God. 1008 01:38:22,263 --> 01:38:24,504 Once there was a David who knew how to pray... 1009 01:38:24,682 --> 01:38:27,351 ...who sought nothing for himself at the hands of God... 1010 01:38:27,518 --> 01:38:30,222 ...who found his strength in faith alone. 1011 01:38:30,437 --> 01:38:35,264 If that David still lives, his God will not deny him mercy. 1012 01:41:10,513 --> 01:41:12,055 O God. 1013 01:41:15,726 --> 01:41:18,643 Thou God of my early youth... 1014 01:41:20,022 --> 01:41:22,310 ...hear my prayer. 1015 01:41:23,567 --> 01:41:25,892 Let thine eyes... 1016 01:41:27,029 --> 01:41:30,029 ...which alone see clearly... 1017 01:41:31,200 --> 01:41:34,568 ...fall upon thy worthless servant. 1018 01:41:36,663 --> 01:41:39,332 In all things... 1019 01:41:41,251 --> 01:41:43,706 ...have I failed thee. 1020 01:41:44,338 --> 01:41:46,829 My life is a waste. 1021 01:41:47,257 --> 01:41:50,423 My crimes are many... 1022 01:41:51,345 --> 01:41:53,467 ...and terrible. 1023 01:41:55,140 --> 01:42:00,382 To my sons, I have bequeathed the evil that is in my blood. 1024 01:42:01,563 --> 01:42:07,767 I have led my people into misery and want. 1025 01:42:08,236 --> 01:42:11,023 I have used thee... 1026 01:42:11,573 --> 01:42:14,064 ...with ingratitude... 1027 01:42:15,202 --> 01:42:18,368 ...and betrayed thy trust. 1028 01:42:20,749 --> 01:42:23,702 I have been a faithless... 1029 01:42:24,377 --> 01:42:26,416 ...shepherd. 1030 01:42:29,215 --> 01:42:32,797 I am dust in the sight of thine eyes. 1031 01:42:33,762 --> 01:42:36,798 I am less than the meanest creature... 1032 01:42:37,015 --> 01:42:39,256 ...crawling on the earth. 1033 01:42:40,685 --> 01:42:42,843 And, yet, O God... 1034 01:42:43,146 --> 01:42:46,431 ...I am also thy creation. 1035 01:42:49,736 --> 01:42:51,609 Take not... 1036 01:42:54,699 --> 01:42:57,783 ...thy Holy Spirit from me. 1037 01:42:59,329 --> 01:43:01,368 Thy spirit... 1038 01:43:02,081 --> 01:43:04,618 ...which abode with me... 1039 01:43:04,834 --> 01:43:07,206 ...in the wilderness. 1040 01:43:09,547 --> 01:43:12,915 I ask nothing for myself, O God. 1041 01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:15,633 By my sins... 1042 01:43:15,803 --> 01:43:20,511 ...I have put myself beyond the compass of thy forgiveness. 1043 01:43:23,478 --> 01:43:27,096 But lift thine hand from thy people... 1044 01:43:27,315 --> 01:43:30,315 ...who suffer for my crimes. 1045 01:43:30,902 --> 01:43:34,401 Forgive them the sin that is not theirs... 1046 01:43:35,031 --> 01:43:36,940 ...but mine. 1047 01:43:37,908 --> 01:43:41,442 Let the land thou gavest their fathers... 1048 01:43:41,871 --> 01:43:44,540 ...flow once more... 1049 01:43:44,915 --> 01:43:47,666 ...with thine abundance. 1050 01:43:58,637 --> 01:44:01,756 And let Bathsheba live... 1051 01:44:03,517 --> 01:44:06,090 ...to praise thy name... 1052 01:44:06,687 --> 01:44:09,557 ...and testify to thy mercy. 1053 01:44:11,567 --> 01:44:15,101 Show her the loving kindness of thy heart. 1054 01:44:16,822 --> 01:44:19,229 Cleanse her from sin... 1055 01:44:25,247 --> 01:44:27,820 ...and let thy punishment... 1056 01:44:28,167 --> 01:44:31,370 ...fall on thy servant who has earned it. 1057 01:44:34,590 --> 01:44:36,712 Look not on the sinner... 1058 01:44:36,925 --> 01:44:39,297 ...who comes before thee... 1059 01:44:41,263 --> 01:44:44,133 ...but on the boy he was... 1060 01:44:44,349 --> 01:44:46,471 ...who loved thee... 1061 01:44:46,685 --> 01:44:49,935 ...and who would have died for thee. 1062 01:44:51,023 --> 01:44:53,810 Make my heart as his. 1063 01:44:55,652 --> 01:44:58,321 Let the boy live again... 1064 01:44:59,030 --> 01:45:01,402 ...in his innocence. 1065 01:45:03,702 --> 01:45:06,537 Grant him thy mercy... 1066 01:45:07,622 --> 01:45:10,658 ...and take this David's life. 1067 01:45:32,397 --> 01:45:34,306 David? 1068 01:45:34,566 --> 01:45:36,724 David? 1069 01:45:39,571 --> 01:45:41,148 David? 1070 01:45:42,073 --> 01:45:43,615 David? 1071 01:45:45,159 --> 01:45:48,278 Your father bids you come to his house. 1072 01:45:48,496 --> 01:45:50,322 I am to stay with the sheep. 1073 01:45:50,540 --> 01:45:53,908 The prophet is there, the prophet Samuel himself. 1074 01:45:54,127 --> 01:45:58,171 It is said that he comes to choose a king over Israel. 1075 01:46:04,804 --> 01:46:06,547 Eliab. 1076 01:46:07,974 --> 01:46:09,717 Abinadab. 1077 01:46:11,602 --> 01:46:13,428 Shammah. 1078 01:46:18,109 --> 01:46:20,397 The Lord has not chosen one of these. 1079 01:46:20,611 --> 01:46:22,899 Any father would be proud of such sons. 1080 01:46:23,114 --> 01:46:25,984 You do well to feel pride, Jesse. 1081 01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:29,070 But the Lord does not see as man sees 1082 01:46:29,286 --> 01:46:31,823 ...for man looks on the outward appearance... 1083 01:46:32,039 --> 01:46:34,530 ...but the Lord looks on the heart. 1084 01:46:35,543 --> 01:46:36,741 Who is this? 1085 01:46:36,961 --> 01:46:39,748 My youngest son, David, who tends the sheep. 1086 01:46:39,964 --> 01:46:44,875 But he's only a boy, a dreamer, a singer of songs. 1087 01:46:45,094 --> 01:46:47,382 Come hither, David. 1088 01:47:04,947 --> 01:47:07,568 The Lord has chosen. 1089 01:47:15,541 --> 01:47:17,663 Honor him, David. 1090 01:47:17,876 --> 01:47:19,998 Walk in his light... 1091 01:47:20,212 --> 01:47:22,749 ...and you shall serve him... 1092 01:47:22,965 --> 01:47:26,298 ...as few are permitted to serve. 1093 01:47:35,018 --> 01:47:39,763 Where is your champion, Hebrews? 1094 01:47:39,981 --> 01:47:45,188 Who will stand forth and face me? 1095 01:47:45,403 --> 01:47:47,561 It is the giant of Gath, sire... 1096 01:47:47,781 --> 01:47:51,861 ...challenging us to send a champion against him and so decide the battle. 1097 01:47:52,077 --> 01:47:54,698 Sire, the men have heard his challenge these 40 dawns. 1098 01:47:54,913 --> 01:47:57,285 They cower like whipped dogs at his voice. 1099 01:47:57,499 --> 01:48:00,250 Unless, he is met, and soon, our cause is lost. 1100 01:48:00,460 --> 01:48:05,335 And is there no one in the ranks of Israel who dares to meet this man? 1101 01:48:05,507 --> 01:48:08,543 Sire, if Goliath were only a man, any one of us would go. 1102 01:48:08,760 --> 01:48:10,586 But he's like no man born of woman. 1103 01:48:10,804 --> 01:48:15,679 His height is six cubits and a span, and his spear is like a weaver's beam. 1104 01:48:15,892 --> 01:48:20,055 They are dogs, indeed, to run before one Philistine. 1105 01:48:20,271 --> 01:48:21,895 Is there no courage in Israel? 1106 01:48:22,065 --> 01:48:24,816 Sire, courage alone is not enough. 1107 01:48:25,026 --> 01:48:27,481 No arrow can pierce the giant's armor. 1108 01:48:27,695 --> 01:48:31,146 No spear can thrust beneath the reach of his arms. 1109 01:48:31,366 --> 01:48:34,984 He casts his spear a hundred long paces. 1110 01:48:35,203 --> 01:48:39,034 We call ourselves "the chosen of the Lord." 1111 01:48:39,248 --> 01:48:44,242 Are we to let the enemies of God take Israel because we lack a champion? 1112 01:48:44,462 --> 01:48:47,581 Sire, I will meet Goliath. 1113 01:48:47,799 --> 01:48:50,835 Who is it that speaks? Come forward. 1114 01:48:57,308 --> 01:49:00,593 - David, my armor bearer. - I will meet him, sire. 1115 01:49:00,811 --> 01:49:02,269 Sire. 1116 01:49:02,480 --> 01:49:05,397 Samuel calls this boy the Lord's anointed. 1117 01:49:05,566 --> 01:49:07,225 If you let him to face the giant... 1118 01:49:07,401 --> 01:49:09,108 ...Samuel's prophecy can be proved... 1119 01:49:09,278 --> 01:49:11,270 ...or disproved. 1120 01:49:12,823 --> 01:49:15,574 David, you may meet Goliath. 1121 01:49:15,785 --> 01:49:17,742 No, David. Father, he is my friend. 1122 01:49:17,912 --> 01:49:20,034 Silence, Jonathan. 1123 01:49:20,247 --> 01:49:23,450 - Go, David. - With God, David. 1124 01:49:24,126 --> 01:49:26,248 Is Goliath a dog... 1125 01:49:26,462 --> 01:49:30,293 ...that you send a boy to meet him? 1126 01:49:31,675 --> 01:49:37,594 Come closer, little one. Come closer. 1127 01:49:38,599 --> 01:49:41,552 Come closer, little one. 1128 01:49:45,064 --> 01:49:47,471 My father, let me go down in David's place. 1129 01:49:47,691 --> 01:49:49,315 No, Jonathan. 1130 01:49:49,526 --> 01:49:54,816 Let the Philistine prove the folly of Samuel's prophecy. 1131 01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:44,196 David, David, get up. 1132 01:53:31,454 --> 01:53:34,787 No man can ever hope to know the real nature of God. 1133 01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:38,285 But he has given us a glimpse of his face.