Dysfunctional Royalty (was: Re: Jewish names)

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 22:40:44 -0400 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> Steg Belsky wrote:
> >  "...and he had never told him 'no' in his life..."
>
> What's this from?
>
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It's a misremembering of Kings(1) 1:6, describing Adoniya, one of King
David's other sons (the discussion about the spelling of Absalom's name
reminded me of this) who tried to overthrow him:

[impromptu translation]

(5) And Adoniya son of Hhagit, getting uppity, says "I shall rule!" and
he made for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty runners going
before him. (6) For never had his father saddened him, saying "Why did
you do that?!" and also he was very good looking, and his mother had
given birth to him following Avshalom.

In other words, Adoniya rebelled against his father because 1. he was a
spoiled brat, 2. he was a hottie, and 3. he admired his bad big brother?
 interesting....


-Stephen (Steg)
 "anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."