When it comes to Arthurian legends, there is no shortage of theory, conjecture, and fake news.
Fair warning: here's an epic adventure (not sold in stores), for anyone who might actually be interested in the search for the rightful king (David & Son). Which is to say, wherever the truth leads, versus comparing opinions and going with the one that presents the most convincing or established argument:
Avalon (/ˈævəlɒn/)[note 1] is an island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
"Isle of Avalon"
אי אבלון
appears 5 times in the Tanakh, as the heads of the letters of a phrase. All in Deuteronomy, beginning with chapter 6, in the second verse of the Shema (שמע*, the Jewish statement of faith).
A great place to start. This idyllic place is located within the instructions for Whom to love, and how:
Deu 6
4. Hear [שמע], O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
5. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might:
את יהוה אלהים בכל לבבך ובכל נפשך
See also: Deu 10:12; 13:4; 30:6, 10. (The last verse's "Isle of Avalon" phrase begins with אל, not את.)
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אבלון
Excalibur is also known as the sword in the stone.
אבן
In the stone that literally came out of Avalon are the letters lamed-vav [לו], "to him". It's also the numeral 36 (sorry about the scrambled coding; it's what happens when pasting certain letter number combinations and mixed text directions):
The Tzadikim Nistarim (Hebrew: צַדִיקִים נִסתָּרים, "hidden righteous ones") or Lamed Vav Tzadikim (Hebrew: ל"ו צַדִיקִים,x"36 righteous ones"), often abbreviated to Lamed Vav(niks),[a] refers to 36 righteous people, a notion rooted within the mystical dimensions of Judaism.
>>>Mystical Hasidic Judaism as well as other segments of Judaism believe that there exist thirty-six righteous people whose role in life is to justify the purpose of humanity in the eyes of God. Jewish tradition holds that their identities are unknown to each other and that, if one of them comes to a realization of their true purpose, they would never admit it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadikim_Nistarim#Their_purpose
Concerning the lamed-vav and the identification of the rightful king (the one who extracts the sword from the stone), here's the verse where David [דוד] is literally missing:
1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
The translations to English are awkward here. It's more literally that "you will be noticed [as missing] because your seat (dwelling place) will be noticed [for being empty].
And that IS what happens in the text. The KJV and several other translations put "David" in the verse, but the Hebrew only says "to him" [lamed-vav לו].
Yet the KJV did not change the appearance of the text (e.g. use italics) for "David", as is usual to signify a word not in the source manuscripts.
(For those aware of and/or interested in the double pei code of Redemption, notice that the verse contains a double use of the "pakad" verb.)
The phrase translated "to David" is actually "to him" [לו], as if he's in there (no formatting change), but he's not there. It's just "him", the letter vav (the masc. sing. suffix).
I found this particular issue a long while back because on the search page for David (the Hebrew Strong's entry), it says:
The KJV translates Strong's H1732 in the following manner: David (1,076x)
But also that
Strong's Number H1732 matches the Hebrew דָּוִד (dāviḏ),
which occurs 1,075 times in 910 verses in the WLC Hebrew.
(The same Strong's number also includes the Davids spelled as דויד.)
The question that arose was, "Where is David no. 1076?" And also, is he located twice in one of those 910 verses, or is the missing David located in an additional verse, a verse 911?
A: the missing David [who is there but not there] is located in the verse (20:18) where he's going to be noticed for not actually being there, in spite of the claim.
David is also the most famous statue in the world. You can visit him in Florence. Don't miss out. The religious worlds explain that David was a rather flawed man, yet God saw that David was the one. God looked inside, to choose the man after His own heart.
David is the stone the sculptors literally rejected for being too flawed to work with.
He even has his own page at the museum:
Data sheet
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date: 1501 - 1504
Collection: SCULPTURE
Technique: Marble
Dimensions: h. 517 cm
Inventory: Inv. Scult. n. 1076https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it/en/artworks/david-michelangelo/
I realize that it's a cynical shrug kind of world out there, so to it I say:
Hebrew:
*!עמלק שמעמלק
How about an apple for the teacher?!
Is the missing David located in a verse 911?
Well as a matter of fact,
Amo 9:11
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
Amazing what can be found in a place called Huntsville. What a spectacular view from the highway is that. It's all in there. If people knew what they were looking at as they drove by, it would cause accidents.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is situated on the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Visitors are welcomed at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Marshall's official Visitor Center. U.S. Space & Rocket Center visitors can learn more about Marshall's legacy and ongoing work.
Fascinating! Thanks for the ping.
“It is a silly place.”
Just for levity!
“When it comes to Arthurian legends, there is no shortage of theory, conjecture, and fake news.”
So it is really nice to have you set everyone straight, if anyone has a clue what you are saying.